Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Comparative literature (2)
- comparative literature (2)
- Cultural studies (1)
- Culture and history (1)
- Diasporic, exile, (im)migrant, and ethnic minority writing (1)
-
- Education, culture, and literature (1)
- Erasure (1)
- Feminist studies (1)
- Gay and lesbian studies (1)
- Gender studies (1)
- Hebrew Poetry (1)
- Hebrew poetry (1)
- Identity (1)
- Identity Politics (1)
- Israeli Poetry (1)
- Literary theory (1)
- Minority Literature (1)
- Modernism (1)
- Natan Zach (1)
- Nationalism (1)
- Palestinian Poetry (1)
- Postcolonial and colonial studies (1)
- Queer Theory (1)
- Shimon Adaf (1)
- Statehood Generation poetry (1)
- Territory (1)
- Trauma (1)
- Zionism (1)
- cultural studies (1)
- culture and history (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Jewish Studies
The Hope Of Salman Masalha: Re-Territorializing Hebrew, Yael Dekel, Eran Tzelgov
The Hope Of Salman Masalha: Re-Territorializing Hebrew, Yael Dekel, Eran Tzelgov
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Israeli poetry can be depicted as a triangle composed of three elements: territory (the State of Israel); language (Hebrew); and identity (Jewish). In his Hebrew collection of poetry Eḥad Mikan (in place, 2004), Salman Masalha—a bilingual author publishing in both Arabic and Hebrew—challenges this interrelation of territory, language and identity. The debate between the literary scholars Hannan Hever and Reuven Snir explore the central expressions of this challenge. For it points, on the one hand, to the subversive potential of such work towards the Israeli canon while, on the other hand, to its connection to Arabic literature. Writing in the …
Queering Identity Politics In Shimon Adaf’S Aviva-No, Yael Segalovitz
Queering Identity Politics In Shimon Adaf’S Aviva-No, Yael Segalovitz
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This article offers a queer reading of Shimon Adaf’s volume of poetry, Aviva-No (2009), analyzing it in conjunction with his recent collection of essays on identity formation, Ani aherim (I am others) (2018). Adaf’s oeuvre has been primarily studied through the lens of ethnicity and race. This article demonstrates that gender plays a key role in his body of work. Aviva-No, which is a lamentation for the poet’s sister, destabilizes the boundaries between the mourning brother and the absent sister. This ontological deconstruction stimulates in Aviva-No a broader undoing of gender as an embodied identity. The volume is replete …
Natan Zach’S Poetics Of Erasure, Michael Gluzman
Natan Zach’S Poetics Of Erasure, Michael Gluzman
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Natan Zach has often been described as the most influential Hebrew poet in the second half of the 20th century. Indeed, the scholar Dan Miron described him as a poet who had “reached the deepest part within us,” and as a “cultural leader” and “cultural hero.” Yet when Miron went on to detail Zach’s immense influence on other poets, he described his poetic legacy in exceedingly limiting formal terms such as “the use of enjambment” or “the magic of the unexpected rhyme, seemingly out of place.” Miron’s reading is symptomatic in the way it uses, indeed echoes, Zach’s own critical …