Self as Nation: Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography
(Part of the The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies Series)
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Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers she examines is the idea of a national self, an individual whose life story takes on meaning from his or her relation to the collective history and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1611688809
ISBN13:9781611688801
Release Date:August 2016
Publisher:Brandeis University Press
Length:228 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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