Self as Nation: Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography

by Tamar Hess

Book Overview

Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers she examines is the idea of a national self, an individual whose life story takes on meaning from his or her relation to the collective history and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611688809
• ISBN13: 9781611688801
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"