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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464276703321

Autore

Omer-Sherman Ranen

Titolo

Israel in exile [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish writing and the desert / / Ranen Omer-Sherman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2006

ISBN

1-283-04406-4

9786613044068

0-252-09202-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

892.4/0932154

Soggetti

Wilderness areas in literature

Israeli literature - History and criticism

Jewish literature - History and criticism

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Representing desert wilderness in Jewish narrative : poetics and politics -- Justice and the old/new Jewish nation -- Desert space and national consciousness -- Immobilized rebels on the outskirts of the promised land -- Sinai of the diasporic imagination -- Wilderness as experience and metaphor.