Self as nation : contemporary Hebrew autobiography /

Hess, Tamar, 1966-

Self as nation : contemporary Hebrew autobiography / Tamar S. Hess. - Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource - The Schusterman series in Israel studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Hebrew autobiography: nation, relation, and narration -- To be a Jew among Jews: the reluctant Israeli native in Yoram Kaniuk -- I have a pain in my mother: Natan Zach and Haim Be'er -- Languages of immigration: Shimon Ballas and Aharon Appelfeld -- Gendered margins: narrative strategies, embodied selves, and subversion in women's autobiography -- Prophets and hedgehogs.



9781611688801 9781611688795

2016015895


Autobiography--Israeli authors.
Israeli literature--History and criticism.
Authors, Israeli--Biography--History and criticism.
Hebrew literature, Modern--History and criticism.
Autobiography in literature.
Autobiography--Women authors.


Electronic Books.

PJ5033 / .S454 2016