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Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon: Nation Building and Minority Discourse »

Authors: Hannan Hever, Laurence J. Silberstein, Laurence J. Silberstein
ISBN-13: 9780814736449, ISBN-10: 0814736440
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Hannan Hever

Book Synopsis

Drawing on recent studies of literary canonization and minority discourse, Hever (poetics and comparative literature, Tel Aviv U.) argues that constructing what is commonly thought of as Hebrew literature entailed a suppression of heterodox discourses that is visible from the earliest expression of a Zionist literary sensibility and continues today. He offers an alternative reading of the historiography of Hebrew literature and of major narratives in it.

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	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Struggle over the Canon of Early Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature: The Case of Galicia	11
2	Nationalist Satire and Its Victims: The Politics of Majority and Minority in S. Y. Agnon's "With Our Young and Our Old"	46
3	From Exile-without-Homeland to Homeland-without-Exile: Hebrew Fiction in Interwar Poland	67
4	Territoriality and Otherness in Hebrew Fiction of the War of Independence	101
5	The Other Will Arrive Tomorrow: Natan Shaham's They Will Arrive Tomorrow	118
6	Minority Discourse of a National Majority Israeli Fiction of the Early Sixties	140
7	Hebrew in an Israeli Arab Hand: Anton Shammas's Arabesques	175
8	On Refugee Gals and Refugee Guys: Emil Habibi and the Hebrew Literary Canon	205
	References	233
	Index	247
	About the Author	259