SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
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SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond

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SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond

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The veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939–2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what was then Palestine under British rule, Oz's life spanned the country's entire history, and both his fiction and nonfiction restlessly probe and illuminate its fraught conflicts, contradictions, and ambivalences. Throughout his career, Oz grappled frankly with the often-painful realities of Israeli life while also celebrating the ebullience of the Israeli spirit, and his sophisticated understanding of the sociopolitical turmoil of his society was always accompanied by intensely lyrical language and deep penetrations into the vulnerabilities of the human psyche. The volume's twenty contributors bring an exciting diversity of concerns and perspectives to Oz's most celebrated novels (including his powerfully resonant final novel, Judas ) as well as to overlooked facets of his oeuvre, illuminating the breathtaking scope of his literary legacy. Together, they offer gripping analyses of his urgent and profoundly universal works about political and romantic dreamers whose heartfelt struggles with both their own human frailties and those of the state ultimately resonate far beyond Israel itself.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781438492506
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Jewish Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction Amos Oz’s Arduous Truths and Ambivalences
  6. Part 1 In a Retrospective Mode
  7. Part 2 Nomads, Vipers, and Women
  8. Part 3 Coming of Age: Constructing the Hebrew Home(Land)
  9. Part 4 Oz and the Other: Mizrahis and Palestinians
  10. Part 5 Dreamers, Iconoclasts, and Traitors
  11. Afterword: About My Father
  12. Contributors
  13. Further Reading: Critical Resources in English
  14. Index
  15. Back Cover