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Multiculturalism in Israel : literary perspectives / / Adia Mendelson-Maoz



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Autore: Mendelson Maoz Adia Visualizza persona
Titolo: Multiculturalism in Israel : literary perspectives / / Adia Mendelson-Maoz Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
Disciplina: 809/.895694
Soggetto topico: Israeli literature - History and criticism
Multiculturalism in literature
National characteristics, Israeli, in literature
Literature and society - Israel - History
Ethnic groups in literature
Minorities in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Kashua
Chapter 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 Writings
On 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 Markish
The 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 Epstein
Chapter 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: By 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 co
Titolo autorizzato: Multiculturalism in Israel  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61249-363-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797170103321
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