Flesh of My Flesh : Sexual Violence in Modern Hebrew Literature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szobel, Ilana.

Series:

SUNY Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature, Modern.

Sex crimes in literature.

Violence in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Flesh of My Flesh

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction "A Great, Oppressive, Suffocating Blasphemy": Sexualized Violence as an Insidious Trauma

The Trope of Sexual Violence

Sexual Violence: Affirming the Status Quo and Challenging It

"Your Own Private Bed"

The Illusion of Progress

Book Structure

Chapter One "Lights in the Darkness": Prostitution, Power, and Vulnerability in Early Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature

"A Woman like That"

Gershon Shofman: Prostitution and Social Determinism

"And Ye Shall Suck One from the Other": Gershon Shofman and Hayim Nahman Bialik

A Mise-en-Scène of Desire: The Trope of Prostitution

"My Sister . . ."

David Vogel: "A Suspect Hatred"

"From Nowhere to Nowhere / Without Me": Conclusion

Chapter Two Sepharadi Jewry in Pre-State Israel: Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexual Violence in the Work of Shoshana Shababo

Arachne's Legacy

The Daughter of the East: Writing Ethnicity

Sexual Violence and Ethnogendered Subjectivity

"While Bending She Could Not Bring Herself to Grasp the Land": Zionism and Sexual Aggression

Nativeness: Shoshanah Shababo and Esther Rabb

"Quivering and Withering in Her Lusts": Female Sexuality

Sexual Violence(s)

Conclusion

Chapter Three "Do Not Bandage the Wounded": Wounded Soldiers and Nonconsensual Relations in Israeli War Literature

"In a World of Dark Horrors"

"You Easily Fall in Love with the Nurse"

Disability in the Heterotopian Hospital

Himmo, King of Jerusalem

"Like a Young Girl before Her First Intimacy"

"Break through the Siege": Himmo's Death

Access to Pleasure

A Doll's Leg: A Story of a War Injury

The Seventh Glory: A Fighter's Story

"Only a Brief, One-Time Baptism by Fire": Conclusion

Chapter Four "Subduing the Terrible Sound of Silence": Memoirs of Incest Survivors

Introduction.

Intertwined Narratives

A Rhizomatic Story

"New Language": An Alliance between Writers and Readers

The Person That Murdered You Is Also the Person That Made You the Best"

"Although the Selection and Fragmentation Err Reality, It May Actually Reinforce It"

"To Be Made Up of Separate Parts"

Summary: The Cliché of the Memoir

Chapter Five "The Girl with the Billy-Goat's Hoof ": Parental Abuse, Metamorphosis, and Poetics in the Poetry of Tsvia Litevsky

"Being Your Daughter": The Father Figure

"Rebirth"

Calling It by Name: From Trauma to Art

"Any Distance / Is the Thrill of My Returning to You": The Mother Figure

A Cry of Privation

"Ah, Let the Children Come"

Conclusion "Silence Cries Out"

The Untold Stories

An Apologetic Note

Amalia Kahana-Carmon: "Beer Sheva, the Capital of the Negev"

Wartime Sexual Violence

A Poetic of Dispersions

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781438484570

1438484577

OCLC:

1258216397