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Author Merin, Tamar, 1975- author

Title Spoiling the stories : the rise of Israeli women's fiction / Tamar Merin
Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 200 pages)
Series Cultural expressions of World War II: interwar preludes, responses, memory
Cultural expressions of World War II.
Contents On the absent pen : intersexual dialogue as melancholia in Yehudit Hendel's prose of the 1950s -- The secret that makes a hero of the weak : imaginary fathers and cross-gender identification in Amalia Kahana-Carmon's early prose -- Spoiling the stories : Rachel Eytan revisits the Hebrew Künstlerroman -- Epilogue. The past that cries out for change : new directions in intersexual dialogue
Summary "In Spoiling the Stories, Tamar Merin presents the as yet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expanding the gendered models of literary influence in modern Hebrew literature. The theoretical idea upon which this book is based is that of intersexual dialogue, a term that refers to the various literary strategies employed by Israeli female fiction writers expressing their voice within a male-dominated and (still) inherently Oedipal literary tradition. Spoiling the Stories focuses on intersexual dialogue as it evolved in the first three decades after the establishment of the state of Israel in the works of Yehudit Hendel, Amalia Kahana Carmon, and Rachel Eytan. According to Merin, these three women writers were the most important in the history of modern Hebrew literature: each was a significant participant in the poetic development of her time"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Eytan, Rachel -- Criticism and interpretation
Kahana-Carmon, Amalia -- Criticism and interpretation
Hendel, Yehudit -- Criticism and interpretation
Eytan, Rachel
Hendel, Yehudit
Kahana-Carmon, Amalia
Women and literature -- Israel
Israeli fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Israeli fiction -- Women authors
Women and literature
Feminist theory.
Women.
Feminism.
Israel
Genre/Form Feminist literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810133723
0810133725