War Lives: Revenge, Grief, and Conflict in Israeli Fiction

by Nitza Ben-Dov

Since the nation's founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Despite this, Hebrew novels that deal with the experience of contemporary conflict are surprisingly rare. In War Lives, Nitza Ben-Dov argues that Israeli writers employ the freedoms granted by fiction to challenge the heroic myth of war. She suggests that these writers do so not only by turning inwards, towards the home front and the psyches of individuals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815637985
• ISBN13: 9780815637981
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"