Spoiling the stories : the rise of Israeli women's fiction / Tamar Merin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Merin, Tamar, 1975- author.

Series:

• Cultural expressions of World War II

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Hendel, Yehudit--Criticism and interpretation.
• Kahana-Carmon, Amalia--Criticism and interpretation.
• Eytan, Rachel--Criticism and interpretation.
• Eytan, Rachel.
• Hendel, Yehudit.
• Kahana-Carmon, Amalia.
• Israeli fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
• Women and literature--Israel.
• Israeli fiction--Women authors.
• Women and literature.
• Israeli fiction.
• Criticism and interpretation.
• Israel.

Genre:

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 200 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In Spoiling the Stones, Tamar Merin presents the as vet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expanding the gendered models of literary influence in modern Hebrew literature. The theoretical idea upon which this book is based is that of intersexual dialogue, a term that refers to the various literary strategies employed by Israeli female fiction writers expressing their voices within a male-dominated and (still) inherently Oedipal literary tradition. Spoiling the Stories focuses on intersexual dialogue as it evolved in the first three decades after the establishment of the state of Israel in the works of Yehudit Hendel, Amalia Kahana Carmon, and Rachel Eytan. According to Merin, these three women writers were the most important in the history of modern Hebrew literature - each was a significant participant in the poetic development of her time. Book jacket.

Contents:

• On the absent pen : intersexual dialogue as melancholia in Yehudit Hendel's prose of the 1950s
• The secret that makes a hero of the weak : imaginary fathers and cross-gender identification in Amalia Kahana-Carmon's early prose
• Spoiling the stories : Rachel Eytan revisits the Hebrew Kunstlerroman
• Epilogue. The past that cries out for change : new directions in intersexual dialogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780810133709
• 0810133709
• 9780810133716
• 0810133717

OCLC:

948340097