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Amos Oz : the legacy of a writer in Israel and beyond / edited by Ranen Omer-Sherman.
- Format:
- Book
- 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
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- 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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- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438492506
- 1438492502
- OCLC:
- 1370499300
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