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Amos Oz : the legacy of a writer in Israel and beyond / edited by Ranen Omer-Sherman.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Omer-Sherman, Ranen, editor.
Series:
SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture.
SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Oz, Amos, 1939-2018--Influence.
Oz, Amos.
Oz, Amos, 1939-2018--Criticism and interpretation.
Israeli literature--History and criticism.
Israeli literature.
Israeli literature--Political aspects.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (426 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Albany : SUNY Press, [2023]
Summary:
Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Introduction: Amos Oz's Arduous Truths and Ambivalences
Notes
Part 1. In a Retrospective Mode
Chapter One: Reflections on In the Land of Israel
Chapter Two: Hannah Gonen . . . and Me: A Personal Essay
Chapter Three: The History of a Long Conversation
Introduction
Twilight
Under this Blazing Light
And in a Conversation We Had towards the End of His Life
Why So Violently?
And in One of Our Last Conversations
Love Comes and Goes
Late Love
Love between Friends
Epilogue
Notes
Chapter Four: Homeless between Two Homes
I
II
III
IV
V
Chapter Five: My Michael, May 1967
Note
Part 2. Nomads, Vipers, and Women
Chapter Six: Maternal Illness and the Israeli Body Politic at War
Chapter Seven: The Little Plot and the Big Plot in Oz's Early Fiction
Works Cited
Chapter Eight: Oz's Literary Genealogies: Salvage Poetics in A Tale of Love and Darkness
Part 3. Coming of Age: Constructing the Hebrew Home(Land)
Chapter Nine: Cat People: Coming of Age in Mr. Levi and Panther in the Basement
Works Cited
Chapter Ten: Tilling the Soil of National Ideology: Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination
Chapter Eleven: On Eternity: Homelessness and the Meaning of Homeland
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2
3
4
5
Chapter Twelve: The Dialogic Encounter between New and Old: The Biblical Intertext in Oz's Fiction
Part 4. Oz and the other: Mizrahis and Palestinians
Chapter Thirteen: Oz's Contentious Journey: In the Land of Israel
The Invention and Decline of Israeliness
Who Has the Power? Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Arab
Who Is a true Zionist?
Dear Zealots
Chapter Fourteen: Oz against Himself: Between Political Romanticism and Social Realism in Black Box
Chapter Fifteen: "Like Belfast, Rhodesia, or South Africa": Oz and the Ideologies of Oslo
Chapter Sixteen: And They Lived Separately Ever After: The Two-State Solution as Literary Ending
An Amicable Divorce
Literary Partitions in Oz's Work
Literary Endings and Political Solutions
Loose Ends
A Relationship with the Future
Part 5. Dreamers, Iconoclasts, and Traitors
Chapter Seventeen: Of Howling Jackals and Village Scenes: A Lament
Chapter Eighteen: Exultation, Disillusionment, and Late Inspiration: Oz's Once and Future Kibbutz
Chapter Nineteen: From Tragedy to Betrayal: Judas and the Subversive Politics of Oz's Last Act
Tragedy
Betrayal
Historicity
Uchronia
Afterword: About My Father
Contributors
Editor
Further Reading: Critical Resources in English
Books
Essays, Articles, and Interviews
Films
Index
Notes:
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print record.
ISBN:
9781438492506
1438492502
OCLC:
1370499300

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