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Author Peleg, Yaron

Title Israeli culture between the two Intifadas : a brief romance / Yaron Peleg
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (156 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Bourgeoisification and its discontent -- Popular media in a post-national age -- Etgar Keret: a dispirited rebel with a cause -- Romance as a defiant escape
Summary Over the past two decades, profound changes in Israel opened its society to powerful outside forces and the dominance of global capitalism. As a result, the centrality of Zionism as an organizing ideology waned, prompting expressions of anxiety in Israel about the coming of a post-Zionist age. The fears about the end of Zionism were quelled, however, by the Palestinian uprising in 2000, which spurred at least a partial return to more traditional perceptions of homeland. Looking at Israeli literature of the late twentieth century, Yaron Peleg shows how a young, urban class of Israelis felt alienated from the Zionist values of their forebears, and how they adopted a form of escapist romanticism as a defiant response that replaced traditional nationalism. One of the first books in English to identify the end of the post-Zionist era through inspired readings of Hebrew literature and popular media, Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas examines Israel's ambivalent relationship with Jewish nationalism at the end of the twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151) and index
Notes English
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Subject Keret, Etgar, 1967- -- Criticism and interpretation
Taub, Gadi -- Criticism and interpretation
Weil, Uzi -- Criticism and interpretation
Amir, Gafna, 1966- -- Criticism and interpretation
Amir, Gafna, 1966-
Keret, Etgar, 1967-
Taub, Gadi
Weil, Uzi
Love in literature.
Israeli fiction -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Intellectual life
Israeli fiction
Love in literature
Israel -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Israel
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008022372
ISBN 9780292794269
0292794266