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Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility is the first book-length study that examines the conspicuous absence of the Palestinian Nakba in modern Hebrew literature. Through a rigorous reading of canonical Hebrew literary texts, the author addresses the general failure of Hebrew literature to take responsibility for the Nakba. The book illustrates how the language of modern Hebrew poetry and fiction reflects symptoms of Israeli national violence, in which the literary language produces a picture of Palestine as an arena where the violent clash between the perpetrators and the victims takes place. In doing so, the author develops a new and critical paradigm for reflecting on the moral responsibility of literature and the ethics of reading. The book includes close readings of the works of Avot Yeshurun, S. Yizhar, Nathan Alterman, Yehuda Amichai, Yitzhak Laor, and Amos Oz, among others.
Price: $114.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Philological Encounters Monographs
Publication Date:
11 April 2019
ISBN: 9789004377400
Format: Hardcover
"Hever’s collection of essays dealing with Israel’s 1948 War of Independence focuses on the writings
of highly respected Israeli poets and writers of that generation […] It is recommended therefore to academic libraries with extensive collections of Israeli literature and works about this seminal period in the history of the State of Israel." Michlean L. Amir, in AJL Online, www.jewishlibraries.org.
Hannan Heveris Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale University and Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University. He teaches in the Comparative Literature Department at Yale and is affiliated with the Program of Judaic Studies. He has published extensively on Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture and Theory of Literature and Culture from political, post-national and post-colonial perspectives. Among his most recent books are Nativism, Zionism and Beyond: three Essays on Nativist Hebrew Poetry (2014), To Inherit the Land, To Conquer the Space: The Birth of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz Yisrael (2015), and Suddenly the Sight of War: Nationalism and Violence in the Hebrew Poetry of the 1940s (2016), His most recent book is We are Broken Rhymes, The Politics of Trauma in Israeli Literature (2017).