An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature

by Rachel S. Harris

Book Overview

An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature explores literary challenges to Israel's national narratives. Many prominent Israeli writers use their fiction to confront the centrality of the army, the mythology of the "new Jew," the positioning of Tel Aviv as the first Israeli city, and the very process by which a nation's history is constructed.

Yehudit Katzir, Etgar Keret, Amos Oz, Yaakov Shabtai, Benjamin Tammuz, and A. B...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810129787
• ISBN13: 9780810129788
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"