LEADER 04542nam 22006734a 450 001 9910780219903321 005 20231005155457.0 010 $a0-8047-6389-5 010 $a1-4175-0134-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804763899 035 $a(CKB)111087027878776 035 $a(OCoLC)54891649 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10042837 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223911 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11186077 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223911 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205389 035 $a(PQKB)10224635 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037426 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037426 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10042837 035 $a(OCoLC)923699675 035 $a(DE-B1597)582611 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804763899 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027878776 100 $a20020603d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe politics of canonicity $elines of resistance in modernist Hebrew poetry /$fMichael Gluzman 210 1$aStanford, Calif. :$cStanford University Press,$d2003. 210 4$aŠ2003 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) 225 1 $aContraversions 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8047-2984-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-239) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tPROLOGUE --$t1 THE NATIONAL IMPERATIVE: WRITING THE NATION, (UN)WRITING THE SELF --$t2 MODERNISM AND EXILE: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS --$t3 DETERRITORIALIZATION AND THE POLITICS OF SIMPLICITY: REREADING DAVID FOGEL --$t4 THE INVISIBLE REVOLUTION: REREADING WOMEN?S POETRY --$t5 THE RETURN OF THE POLITICALLY REPRESSED: AVOT YESHURUN?S ?PASSOVER ON CAVES? --$tEPILOGUE: NOTES ON CONSPIRACY AND CULPABILITY --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aThe Politics of Canonicity sheds new light on the dynamics of canon formation in modern Hebrew literature. It explores the ways in which literary culture?as site and as tool?participates in the production of national identity. The aesthetic paradigms, political ideologies, and social interests that privilege certain texts and literary modes are reexamined within the framework of the conscious and deliberate practices of Zionism to formulate a national discourse. As the author shows, the suppressed, the marginal, the undesired "others" of the nation demonstrate the limits of both the literary canon and society's own self-understanding. The book combines the specific questions of Hebrew literature with a critical inquiry of the theoretical debates surrounding the notion of canon. It begins by examining the formative debate in both Hebrew letters and European discourses of modernity at the end of the nineteenth century which address the tension between writing the nation and writing the self. It moves on to the equally constitutive question within Jewish nationalism of the relation between diaspora and homeland in literary writing. While international modernism tends to glorify exile, Hebrew modernism demonstrated a fierce antagonism toward a "diaspora mentality." In his analysis of the suppressed margins of the Hebrew literary canon, the author outlines the specific aesthetic fault lines of the new national community. In chapters devoted to the poets David Fogel and Avot Yeshurun, and the poetics of a feminine voice in Rachel Bluvstein, Esther Raab, and Anda Pinkerfeld, he analyzes the historical tensions between margin and canon, highlighting the ways in which these marginalized poets were able to speak within a discursive system that suppressed their voices. We are grateful for support from the Koret Jewish Studies Publication Program. 410 0$aContraversions (Stanford, Calif.) 606 $aHebrew literature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHebrew poetry, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNationalism and literature 606 $aJews$xIdentity 615 0$aHebrew literature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHebrew poetry, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNationalism and literature. 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 676 $a892.4/09358 700 $aGluzman$b Michael$01538138 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780219903321 996 $aThe politics of canonicity$93787931 997 $aUNINA