05397nam 2200721 450 991046065260332120200520144314.01-61249-363-7(CKB)3710000000409218(EBL)2039075(SSID)ssj0001499225(PQKBManifestationID)11810708(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001499225(PQKBWorkID)11510773(PQKB)10464650(MiAaPQ)EBC2039075(Au-PeEL)EBL2039075(CaPaEBR)ebr11052780(OCoLC)908670965(EXLCZ)99371000000040921820150519h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMulticulturalism in Israel literary perspectives /Adia Mendelson-MaozWest Lafayette, Indiana :Purdue University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (368 p.)Shofar Supplements in Jewish StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-55753-680-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Literature of Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Literature of Boundaries; The Literature of Palestinian Citizens of Israel; Palestinian-Israeli Authors Writing in Hebrew; The Second Generation of Writers in Hebrew; The Third Generation of Writers in Hebrew; Three Stories of Acceptance; Habibi and the Israel Prize for Literature; Mahmoud Darwish in Israeli Schools; Ghassan Kanafani-Returning to Haifa in Israeli Eyes; The Metonym of "Identity Card" in Mahmoud Darwish and Sayed KashuaChapter 3: "Ana min al-yahud": Mizrahi Literature and the Question of Space and AuthenticityDoes Mizrahi Literature in Israel Have a Face? A Historical and Poetical Survey; The Mizrahi Literature of the 1950s and 1960s; The 1970s-First Signs of Mizrahi Poetics: Sami Michael, Erez Biton, Ronny Someck, and Jacqueline Kahanoff; The 1980s and 1990s-Different Voices in Mizrahi Writing: Dan Benaya Seri, Eli Amir, Amira Hess, and Ronit Matalon; Towards the 2000s and Beyond-the Second and Third Generations Reconstruct Mizrahi Identity; New Spaces in Contemporary Mizrahi WritingsOn Language and Memory-Almog BeharThe Great Mother-Ronit Matalon's The Sound of our Steps and Sami Berdugo's That is to Say; Shimon Adaf and the Peripheral Novel; Conclusion, or: is A. B. Yehoshua a Mizrahi Author?; Chapter 4: The Aristocrat and Her Handmaid: Russian-Israeli Literature and the Question of Language; Introduction; Dual Colonialism, or: Who's in Charge of the Cultural Ghetto?; Israel and the Russian Diaspora; Israeli Literature Written in Russian; A Sip of the Russian-Israeli Cocktail; On the Journey between Diaspora and the Holy Land-Efrem Bauch and David MarkishThe Liminality of Spaces and Times-Anna IsakovaPoetry That Bites-Igor Guberman; Returning to Holy Jerusalem, Returning to "Blood" and "Love"-Mikhail Gendelev; On War and God-Mikhail Grobman; Between the Narrator and the Immigrant-Dina Rubina; The Multicultural Dining Room-Gali-Dana Singer; Between the Languages-the Gesher Theater; Russian Immigrants Writing in Hebrew; In Search of Lost Memories; Alona Kimhi-Hybridity Materializes; Victor and Masha; Sivan Baskin's Poetic Alternative; The Nomadic World of Alex EpsteinChapter 5: The Road to Jerusalem, The Search for Zion: the Literature of Ethiopian-IsraelisIntroduction; From Ethiopia to Jerusalem-the Story of the Odyssey; Blood and Water; Blood; Water; Searching for Zion; Minorities of Minorities-Black Jewish Women; Epilogue; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Bibliography; IndexBy analyzing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold new picture of Israeli literature. Through comparative discussion of the literatures of Palestinian citizens of Israel, of Mizrahim, of migrants from the former Soviet Union, and of Ethiopian-Israelis, the author demonstrates an unexpected richness and diversity in the Israeli literary scene, a reality very different from the monocultural image that Zionism aspired to create.Drawing on a wide body of social and literary theory, Mendelson-Maoz coShofar supplements in Jewish studies.Israeli literatureHistory and criticismMulticulturalism in literatureNational characteristics, Israeli, in literatureLiterature and societyIsraelHistoryEthnic groups in literatureMinorities in literatureElectronic books.Israeli literatureHistory and criticism.Multiculturalism in literature.National characteristics, Israeli, in literature.Literature and societyHistory.Ethnic groups in literature.Minorities in literature.809/.895694Mendelson Maoz Adia792785MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460652603321Multiculturalism in Israel1952338UNINA