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Representations of the other in modern Hebrew literature
Bibliography: p. 323-332.
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| author | Goodman, Zilla Jane |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20041 Representations of the other in modern Hebrew literature Goodman, Zilla Jane Gitay, Yehoshua Spicehandler, Ezra Hebrew Language and Literature Bibliography: p. 323-332. This study posits that the concept of the Other is central in modern Hebrew literature. It traces its beginnings in Jewish thought to the Bible, and connects the creation and Eden narratives to contemporary psychoanalytic thought on ego formation and the Other. It considers the importance of the figure of the talush to the focus on the Other in modern Hebrew literature and suggests that the conflicts of the collective versus the individual that are expressed in the early stages of the literature do not disappear as it moves into the present day, but are discernible in different guise and can be seen in the burden of group consciousness which besets Hebrew authors and vitiates their attempts to configure the unique. The feminized Other is seen as especially important in this regard because of the collective textual and thus social repression of women in the tradition. Its presentation is thus taken as a useful measure of the successful resolution of individual as opposed to group narration. The modern Hebrew texts analyzed, beginning with a poem by the late Haskhalah poet, Y.L. Gordon through D. Baron, M.Y. Berdichewski, A. Kahana-Carman, S.Y. Agnon, A Appelfeld and ending with a novel by the contemporary Israeli writer, D. Grossman, support this decision as the collective is subjugated only in Kahana-Carman's text where the feminine is fully realized. The thesis examines the ways the eight narratives grapple with the awareness of the Other, and focuses on the aspects, including body, war and language, that are highlighted variously in each text. The struggles of modern Hebrew writers are also viewed as part of the difficulties entailed in the denotative endeavors of writing itself which strives, towards the always elusive Other that predates ego-formation and thus individuality itself. It is proposed that this intensifies the tensions about the Other in modern Hebrew literature which derive from its specific cultural heritage. 2016-06-17T11:16:22Z 2016-06-17T11:16:22Z 1997 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20041 eng application/pdf Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Representations of the other in modern Hebrew literature |
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| title_short | Representations of the other in modern Hebrew literature |
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| topic | Hebrew Language and Literature |
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