Anaḥnu shivre ḥaruzim
Subtitle: poliṭiḳah shel ṭraʼumah ba-sifrut ha-Yiśreʼelit = We are broken rhymes
By: Ḥanan Hever
Series: Meḥḳar ṿe-ʻiyun; Meḥḳar ṿe-ʻiyun
Publisher: Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y. L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Yerushalayim
Language: heb
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9789654939119; 9789654939126
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Modern Hebrew literature; History and criticism; Psychic trauma in literature; Collective memory in literature
Other titles: We are broken rhymes
Description: The author of this book argues that Israeli traumas exist in the language, poetics, and politics of Israeli literature. Presenting a comprehensive and methodical study of this phenomenon, this book raises piercing questions concerning the politics behind literature and its moral authority, focusing specifically on the responsibility of the author. Hever tracks the literary processing methods of Israeli traumas in light of the extermination of European Jews, the 1948 war, the Palestinian Nakba, and the 1973 war in the works of S. Yizhar, Leah Goldberg, Avoth Yeshurun, Nathan Alterman, Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Erez Biton, Yitzhak Laor, Shimon Ballas, Haim Be'er, and Rivka Ben-Hayim. The book offers a rigorous discussion of the unique manners in which literature deals with representations of traumas. This research presents the traces of Israeli post-trauma represented in the literary text, and tackles the question of responsibility among fictional characters.

poliṭiḳah shel ṭraʼumah ba-safrut ha-yiśraʼelit
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.