Amos Oz

The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2023
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9249-0 (ISBN)

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Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.

The veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939–2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what was then Palestine under British rule, Oz's life spanned the country's entire history, and both his fiction and nonfiction restlessly probe and illuminate its fraught conflicts, contradictions, and ambivalences. Throughout his career, Oz grappled frankly with the often-painful realities of Israeli life while also celebrating the ebullience of the Israeli spirit, and his sophisticated understanding of the sociopolitical turmoil of his society was always accompanied by intensely lyrical language and deep penetrations into the vulnerabilities of the human psyche. The volume's twenty contributors bring an exciting diversity of concerns and perspectives to Oz's most celebrated novels (including his powerfully resonant final novel, Judas) as well as to overlooked facets of his oeuvre, illuminating the breathtaking scope of his literary legacy. Together, they offer gripping analyses of his urgent and profoundly universal works about political and romantic dreamers whose heartfelt struggles with both their own human frailties and those of the state ultimately resonate far beyond Israel itself.

Ranen Omer-Sherman is Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Louisville. His previous books include Imagining Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film and Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert.

Introduction: Amos Oz’s Arduous Truths and Ambivalences
Ranen Omer-Sherman

Part 1. IN A RETROSPECTIVE MODE

1. Reflections on In the Land of Israel
David Grossman

2. Hannah Gonen . . . and Me: A Personal Essay
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

3. The History of a Long Conversation
Nurith Gertz

4. Homeless between Two Homes
Avraham Balaban

5. My Michael, May 1967
Nissim Calderon

Part 2. NOMADS, VIPERS, AND WOMEN

6. Maternal Illness and the Israeli Body Politic at War
Nitza Ben-Dov

7. The Little Plot and the Big Plot in Oz’s Early Fiction
Oded Nir

8. Oz’s Literary Genealogies: Salvage Poetics in A Tale of Love and Darkness
Sheila E. Jelen

Part 3. COMING OF AGE: CONSTRUCTING THE HEBREW HOME(LAND)

9. Cat People: Coming of Age in Mr. Levi and Panther in the Basement
Adam Rovner

10. Tilling the Soil of National Ideology: Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination
Eric Zakim

11. On Eternity: Homelessness and the Meaning of Homeland
Liam Hoare

12. The Dialogic Encounter between New and Old: The Biblical Intertext in Oz’s Fiction
Nehama Aschkenasy

Part 4. OZ AND THE OTHER: MIZRAHIS AND PALESTINIANS

13. Oz’s Contentious Journey: In the Land of Israel
Adia Mendelson-Maoz

14. Oz against Himself: Between Political Romanticism and Social Realism in Black Box
Joshua Leifer

15. “Like Belfast, Rhodesia, or South Africa”: Oz and the Ideologies of Oslo
Moriel Rothman-Zecher

16. And They Lived Separately Ever After: The Two-State Solution as Literary Ending
Vered Karti Shemtov

Part 5. DREAMERS, ICONOCLASTS, AND TRAITORS

17. Of Howling Jackals and Village Scenes: A Lament
Yaron Peleg

18. Exultation, Disillusionment, and Late Inspiration: Oz’s Once and Future Kibbutz
Ranen Omer-Sherman

19. From Tragedy to Betrayal: Judas and the Subversive Politics of Oz’s Last Act
Sam Sussman

Afterword: About My Father
Fania Oz-Salzberger

Contributors
Further Reading: Critical Resources in English
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4384-9249-9 / 1438492499
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-9249-0 / 9781438492490
Zustand	Neuware