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Self as Nation: Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography
Tamar Hess
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Paperback. Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers she examines is the idea of a national self, a Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; HBLX; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 319 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers she examines is the idea of a national self, an individual whose life story takes on meaning from his or her relation to the collective history and ethos of the nation. Her second and related argument is that this self—individually and collectively—must be understood in the context of waves of immigration to Israel’s shores. Hess ... Read more
Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers she examines is the idea of a national self, an individual whose life story takes on meaning from his or her relation to the collective history and ethos of the nation. Her second and related argument is that this self—individually and collectively—must be understood in the context of waves of immigration to Israel’s shores. Hess ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781611688801
SKU
V9781611688801
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99-16
About Tamar Hess
"Tamar Hess is Sidney and Betty Sarah Berg Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Language in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
Reviews for Self as Nation: Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography
Situating her highly articulate and incontestably scholarly study within the fields of autobiographical theory and the study of the Hebrew canon, Hess offers a fresh and insightful analysis of recent Hebrew autobiographies and convincingly argues that this genre is instrumental in shaping the concept of the Israeli nation-state.
Journal of Jewish Studies
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Journal of Jewish Studies
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