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.
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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.