No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction

Neuausgabe 1999
ISBN: 978-0-231-11147-8
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: Gender and Culture Series

Unlike the literary traditions of the United States, England, and France, the first century of Hebrew literature was lacking in women novelists; women tended to write poetry, while prose fiction was mainly the domain of male writers. Since the 1980s, however, there has been a virtual explosion of commercially successful Hebrew fiction by women that includes many traditionally male genres, such as the historical novel, fictional autobiography, and the mystery novel.

No Room of Their Own is a comparative analysis of recent Israeli fiction by women and some of its Western models, from Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir to Marilyn French and Marie Cardinal. Feldman shows the richness and subtleties of Israeli women's fiction as she explores the themes of gender and nation, as well as the (non)representation of the "New Hebrew Woman" in five authors the "foremothers" of the contemporary boom in Israeli Women's fiction: Amalia Kahana-Carmon (Up on Montifer, With Her on Her Way Home), Shulamith Hareven (City of Many Days, Thirst, The Vocabulary of Peace), Netiva BenYehuda (The Palmach Trilogy), Ruth Almog (Women, The Story of a [Writer's] Block, Roots of Air), and Shulamit Lapid (Gei Oni).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feldman, Yael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionI. "Running with She-Wolves"?II. The "New Hebrew Woman"III. The Subject of PostmodernismIV. Isreal and the European "Woman Question"One: Emerging SubjectsI. The Masked Autobiography: Genre and GenderII. What Does a Woman Want? Shulamit Lapid and the Feminist RomanceTwo: Alterity Revisited: Gender Theory and Israeli Literary FeminismI. Beauvior's Drama of SubjectivityII. Beauvoir's "Daughters": Otherness as DifferenceIII. Postmodernism's "Other": Mother's Body, Mother's TongueIV. Empowering the M/Other?Three: Empowering the Other: Amalia Kahana-CarmonI. Feminine, Feminist, or Modernist?II. A Brotherhood of Outsiders: Women/Jews/Blacks in Up in MontiferIII. The Brotherhood That Cannot HoldFour: Who's Afraid of Androgyny? Virginia Woolf's "Gender" avant la lettreI. Untangling the Homoerotic Web: Between Orlando and A Room of One's OwnII. Who's Afraid of Father and Mother(hood)? Back To The LighthouseIII. Jewish Mothers and Israeli AndrogynyFive: Israeli Androgyny Under Siege: Shulamith HarevenI. Gendered Selves in City of Many Days: Same, Different, or Repressed?II. Androgynous "Jewish Parents"? Not in a War Zone!III. Trauma and Homoeroticism: Loneliness, an Israeli StorySix: The Leaning Ivory Tower: Feminist PoliticsI. Oedipal Tyrannies: Woolf's Psychopolitics in Three GuineasII. The Leaning Israeli Tower: Feminism ReinventedIII. Monotheistic Tyrannies: Israeli PsychopoliticsSeven: 1948 Hebrew "Gender" and Zionist Ideology: Netiva Ben YehudaEight: Beyond The Feminist Romance: Ruth AlmogI. From The Madwoman in the Attic to The Women's RoomII. The Sins of Their Father(s); or, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young GirlIII. Love and Work? Embracing the M/Other in Roots of AirIV. From Hysteria to HerStory: Artistic MendingAfterword: The Nineties Prelude to a Postmodernist Millennium?

Über Autor(innen)

Yael S. Feldman is Abraham I. Katsch Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education at New York University.