Beyond the Land : Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910985672903321
• Autore: Weininger Melissa
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: OnixTransformation.OnixModel.CityOfPublication : , : Wayne State University Press, , 2023; ©2023
• ISBN: 9780814350614; 0814350615
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 pages)
• Disciplina: 909/.04924
• Soggetti: Jewish diaspora; Nationalisme - Israël - Art; Juifs - Identite; Nationalisme juif - Art; Nationalisme juif; Diaspora juive - Art; Diaspora juive dans la litterature; Diaspora juive; Nationalism - Israel - Art; Jews - Identity; Jewish nationalism - Art; Jewish nationalism; Jewish diaspora - Art; Jewish diaspora in literature; Art.; Israel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Home Away from Home: The Problem of Diaspora -- 1. Zion in the Diaspora: Alternative Histories, Alternative Homelands -- 2. American Hebrew: The Transnational ; Israeli Novel in the Twenty-First Century -- 3. Hebrew in English: Translingual Israeli Literature -- 4. Haunted Dreams: Exile and Return in the Work of Yael Bartana -- 5. The Neue Diaspora: Diasporic Hebrew in Berlin -- Conclusion: Pandemic as Metaphor -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Beyond the Land examines contemporary Israeli literature and visual art created in an about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity beyond the binary lens imposed by political Zionism. Melissa Weininger shoes that diaspora Israeli culture engages both diasporic and Zionist models together, reimagining the language and geography of homeland. These works of literature and art envison new forms of Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality. --