04543nam 22006734a 450 991045616300332120200520144314.00-8047-6389-51-4175-0134-010.1515/9780804763899(CKB)111087027878776(OCoLC)54891649(CaPaEBR)ebrary10042837(SSID)ssj0000223911(PQKBManifestationID)11186077(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223911(PQKBWorkID)10205389(PQKB)10224635(MiAaPQ)EBC3037426(Au-PeEL)EBL3037426(CaPaEBR)ebr10042837(OCoLC)923699675(DE-B1597)582611(DE-B1597)9780804763899(EXLCZ)9911108702787877620020603d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe politics of canonicity[electronic resource] lines of resistance in modernist Hebrew poetry /Michael GluzmanStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20031 online resource (268 p.) ContraversionsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-2984-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-239) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1 THE NATIONAL IMPERATIVE: WRITING THE NATION, (UN)WRITING THE SELF -- 2 MODERNISM AND EXILE: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS -- 3 DETERRITORIALIZATION AND THE POLITICS OF SIMPLICITY: REREADING DAVID FOGEL -- 4 THE INVISIBLE REVOLUTION: REREADING WOMEN’S POETRY -- 5 THE RETURN OF THE POLITICALLY REPRESSED: AVOT YESHURUN’S “PASSOVER ON CAVES” -- EPILOGUE: NOTES ON CONSPIRACY AND CULPABILITY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXThe Politics of Canonicity sheds new light on the dynamics of canon formation in modern Hebrew literature. It explores the ways in which literary culture—as site and as tool—participates in the production of national identity. The aesthetic paradigms, political ideologies, and social interests that privilege certain texts and literary modes are reexamined within the framework of the conscious and deliberate practices of Zionism to formulate a national discourse. As the author shows, the suppressed, the marginal, the undesired "others" of the nation demonstrate the limits of both the literary canon and society's own self-understanding. The book combines the specific questions of Hebrew literature with a critical inquiry of the theoretical debates surrounding the notion of canon. It begins by examining the formative debate in both Hebrew letters and European discourses of modernity at the end of the nineteenth century which address the tension between writing the nation and writing the self. It moves on to the equally constitutive question within Jewish nationalism of the relation between diaspora and homeland in literary writing. While international modernism tends to glorify exile, Hebrew modernism demonstrated a fierce antagonism toward a "diaspora mentality." In his analysis of the suppressed margins of the Hebrew literary canon, the author outlines the specific aesthetic fault lines of the new national community. In chapters devoted to the poets David Fogel and Avot Yeshurun, and the poetics of a feminine voice in Rachel Bluvstein, Esther Raab, and Anda Pinkerfeld, he analyzes the historical tensions between margin and canon, highlighting the ways in which these marginalized poets were able to speak within a discursive system that suppressed their voices. We are grateful for support from the Koret Jewish Studies Publication Program.Contraversions (Stanford, Calif.)Hebrew literature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismHebrew poetry, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismNationalism and literatureJewsIdentityElectronic books.Hebrew literature, ModernHistory and criticism.Hebrew poetry, ModernHistory and criticism.Nationalism and literature.JewsIdentity.892.4/09358Gluzman Michael887927MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456163003321The politics of canonicity1983341UNINA