Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert
Ranen Omer-Sherman
Israel in Exile is a bold exploration of how the ancient desert of Exodusand Numbers, as archetypal site of human liberation, forms a templatefor modern political identities, radical scepticism, and questioning ofofficial narratives of the nation that appear in the works of contemporaryIsraeli authors including David Grossman, Shulamith Hareven, andAmos Oz, as well as diasporic writers such as Edmund Jabes andSimone Zelitch. In contrast to other ethnic and national representations, Jewish writers since antiquity have not constructed a neat antithesisbetween the desert and the city or nation; rather, the desert becomes asymbol against which the values of the city or nation can be tested, measured, and sometimes found wantin
年:
2006
出版商:
University of Illinois Press
語言:
english
頁數:
232
ISBN 10:
0252030435
ISBN 13:
9780252030437
文件:
PDF, 2.45 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2006