Self As Nation - Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Reveals the intimate ties between selfhood and nationality, life story and national narrative, through Hebrew autobiographyTheorists 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

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• Authors: Tamar Hess, Tamar S. Hess, Tamar Hess
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781611688801
• ISBN: 978-1-61168-880-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Schusterman Series in Israel S; The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies; The Schusterman Israel Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures