Translating Israel : contemporary Hebrew literature and its reception in America / Alan L. Mintz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mintz, Alan L.

Series:

Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970.

Israeli fiction--Appreciation--United States.

Israeli fiction--Appreciation.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970--Criticism and interpretation.

Zionism in literature.

Israeli fiction--History and criticism.

Israeli fiction.

Physical Description:

vii, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2001.

Contents:

Introduction: Israeli Literature in the Minds of American Readers 1

Part 1 The Enterprise of Hebrew Literature

1. Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Israeli Literature in the 1970s 47

2. The Boom in Israeli Fiction: An Overview 55

Part 2 The Faces of Agnon

3. Agnon as Modernist: The Contours of a Career (With Anne Golumb Hoffman) 80

4. The Critique of the German-Jewish Ethos in Agnon's Shira 102

5. Between Holocaust and Homeland: Agnon's "The Sign" as Inauguration Story 108

Part 3 Rewriting the Zionist Narrative

6. The Unknown Appelfeld 136

7. Constructing and Deconstructing the Mystique of Sephardism in Yehoshua's Mr. Mani and Journey to the End of the Millennium 172

8. David Grossman's Postmodernist Ambitions 192

9. Revising the Founders: Telling and Retelling in Meir Shalev's The Blue Mountain 218

Concluding Theological Meditation: Hebrew Literature as a Source of Modern Jewish Thought 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815628994

0815629001

OCLC:

45136586