The politics of canonicity
Subtitle: lines of resistance in modernist Hebrew poetry
By: Michael Gluzman.
Series: Contraversions; Contraversions (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Hebrew literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Hebrew poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Nationalism and literature.; Jews -- Identity.
Description: "The book combines the specific questions of Hebrew literature with a critical inquiry of the theoretical debates surrounding the notion of canon. It begins by examining the formative debate in both Hebrew letters and European discourses of modernity at the end of the nineteenth century which address the tension between writing the nation and writing the self. It moves on to the equally constitutive question within Jewish nationalism of the relation between diaspora and homeland in literary writing.

While international modernism tends to glorify exile, Hebrew modernism demonstrated a fierce antagonism toward a "diaspora mentality."".

"In his analysis of the suppressed margins of the Hebrew literary canon, the author outlines the specific aesthetic fault lines of the new national community.

In chapters devoted to the poets David Fogel and Avot Yeshurun, and the poetics of a feminine voice in Rachel Bluvstein, Esther Raab, and Anda Pinkerfeld, he analyzes the historical tensions between margin and canon, highlighting the ways in which these marginalized poets were able to speak within a discursive system that suppressed their voices."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-239) and index.