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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ranen Omer-ShermanPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438492490ISBN 10: 1438492499 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 01 March 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Amos Oz’s Arduous Truths and Ambivalences Ranen Omer-Sherman Part 1. IN A RETROSPECTIVE MODE 1. Reflections on In the Land of Israel David Grossman 2. Hannah Gonen . . . and Me: A Personal Essay Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi 3. The History of a Long Conversation Nurith Gertz 4. Homeless between Two Homes Avraham Balaban 5. My Michael, May 1967 Nissim Calderon Part 2. NOMADS, VIPERS, AND WOMEN 6. Maternal Illness and the Israeli Body Politic at War Nitza Ben-Dov 7. The Little Plot and the Big Plot in Oz’s Early Fiction Oded Nir 8. Oz’s Literary Genealogies: Salvage Poetics in A Tale of Love and Darkness Sheila E. Jelen Part 3. COMING OF AGE: CONSTRUCTING THE HEBREW HOME(LAND) 9. Cat People: Coming of Age in Mr. Levi and Panther in the Basement Adam Rovner 10. Tilling the Soil of National Ideology: Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination Eric Zakim 11. On Eternity: Homelessness and the Meaning of Homeland Liam Hoare 12. The Dialogic Encounter between New and Old: The Biblical Intertext in Oz’s Fiction Nehama Aschkenasy Part 4. OZ AND THE OTHER: MIZRAHIS AND PALESTINIANS 13. Oz’s Contentious Journey: In the Land of Israel Adia Mendelson-Maoz 14. Oz against Himself: Between Political Romanticism and Social Realism in Black Box Joshua Leifer 15. “Like Belfast, Rhodesia, or South Africa”: Oz and the Ideologies of Oslo Moriel Rothman-Zecher 16. And They Lived Separately Ever After: The Two-State Solution as Literary Ending Vered Karti Shemtov Part 5. DREAMERS, ICONOCLASTS, AND TRAITORS 17. Of Howling Jackals and Village Scenes: A Lament Yaron Peleg 18. Exultation, Disillusionment, and Late Inspiration: Oz’s Once and Future Kibbutz Ranen Omer-Sherman 19. From Tragedy to Betrayal: Judas and the Subversive Politics of Oz’s Last Act Sam Sussman Afterword: About My Father Fania Oz-Salzberger Contributors Further Reading: Critical Resources in English IndexReviewsThis important and timely volume addresses a lacuna in English criticism on Amos Oz, an author not only central in Israeli culture since the 1960s but also prominently positioned within the mode of world literature. The contributors offer a wide range of approaches to and engagements with Oz, from the scholarly to the personal. They invite us to consider Oz as a masterful author, an eloquent political commentator, and a complex human being. - Karen Grumberg, author of Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution This important and timely volume addresses a lacuna in English criticism on Amos Oz, an author not only central in Israeli culture since the 1960s but also prominently positioned within the mode of world literature. The contributors offer a wide range of approaches to and engagements with Oz, from the scholarly to the personal. They invite us to consider Oz as a masterful author, an eloquent political commentator, and a complex human being. - Karen Grumberg, author of Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution In chapter after chapter of this collection of essays about Amos Oz, I found myself surprised and excited to encounter a refreshing new array of insights into the life and legacy of this familiar cultural icon. This English-language North American perspective is bound to open up new opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue. - Yael Halevi-Wise, author of The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua Author InformationRanen Omer-Sherman is Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Louisville. His previous books include Imagining Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film and Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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