Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature

Informationen zum Autor Karen Grumberg is associate professor of Hebrew studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Her articles on modern Hebrew and comparative literatures have appeared in Prooftexts and other journals. Klappentext John Brinckerhoff Jackson has theorised the vernacular landscape as one that reflects a way of life guided by tradition and custom, distanced from the larger world of politics and law. The quotidian space is shaped by the everyday culture of its inhabitants. Karen Grumberg sets anchor in this and other contemporary theories of space and place, then embarks on subtle close readings of recent Israeli fiction that demonstrate how literature in practice can complicate those discourses. Zusammenfassung Place and Ideology examines literary depictions of vernacular places! the lived places of everyday life! such as balconies and cafs! to propose a reconceptualization of how space informs Israeli identity. In illuminating the intimate relations between vernacular place! identity! and ideology in the cultural imagination! it confronts issues central in Israel and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Grumberg
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2012
• EAN: 9780815632597
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3259-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Judaic Traditions in Literatur; Judaic Traditions in Literatur; Judaic Traditions in LIterature, Music, and Art
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies