Roots in the air
Subtitle: construction of identity in anglophone israeli literature
By: Nadezda Rumjanceva
Series: Representations & Reflections : Studies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures -- Volume 10; Representations & reflections -- Volume 10.
Publisher: V & R unipress; Bonn University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Göttingen [Germany]
Language: ger
ISBN-13: 9783847104292; 9783847004295
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Israeli literature; History and criticism; Littérature israélienne; Histoire et critique; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Literary
Notes: "With 2 figures."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; 1. Introduction; 2. Cultures in Flux and the Flexible Selves; 2.1. Identity, Hybridity, Transculturality; 2.2. Challenging Autonomous Cultures and the Jewish Perspective; 3. English and English Speakers in Israel; 3.1. The Status of English in Israel; 3.2. Immigration from English Speaking Countries; 3.3. Geographical Distribution; 3.4. Motivation of Immigrants; 3.5. From Demography to Writing; 4. Overview: Anglophone Israeli Literature; 4.1. In Lieu of a Definition; 4.2. The Beginnings; 4.3. Writers' Organizations; 4.4. Creative Writing Courses.; title: 4.5. Publishing4.6. Translation and Cultural Integration?; 4.7. Genre; 4.8. The Poetic Form; 4.9. Authors: Native and Non-Native Speakers of English; 5. Voices in Context; 5.1. Jewish American Literature; 5.2. Hebrew Literature; 5.2.1. The Revival of Hebrew; 5.2.2. Non-Native Speakers Now and Then: Proficiency and Ideology; 5.2.3. Language and Uprootedness in the Israeli Hebrew Canon: Lea Goldberg and Yehuda Amichai; 6. Language and the Self; 6.1. Me, Myself, Ani and Ikh; 6.2. Shirley Kaufman and Riva Rubin: The Monolingualism of the Self; 6.3. Translingual Heteroglossia.; title: 6.3.1. The Critics' Voice6.3.2. Rachel Tzvia Back: Echoes in the Third Space; 6.3.3. Lami: A Leak in the Word Pouch; 6.3.4. Richard Sherwin: The Continuum Widens; 6.3.5. Karen Alkalay-Gut: An Alter Ego; 6.4. Conclusion; 7. Landscapes of Belonging; 7.1. Territorializing the Translocal; 7.2. Demystifying the Land; 7.3. Place, Acculturation and the Double Diaspora; 7.4. Sprouting Roots: A Suspended Ficus and a Walking Tree; 7.5. Projections of Alienation and Attachment in the Landscape; 7.5.1. Conflict in the Parched Land; 7.5.2. Projecting Belonging.; title: 7.6. The Old Country and the New Country: Questioning the Concept of Home7.7. Conclusion; 8. Deconstructing the Other; 8.1. A Question of Perspective; 8.2. Locating the Other; 8.3. Tracing the Front Line: Richard Sherwin and Rachel Tzvia Back; 8.4. Short Lines from a Sealed Room; 8.5. The Context of Contact: Looking for Solutions; 8.5.1. The Power of Coincidence; 8.5.2. The Mother and the Other; 8.5.3. From Personal to Political; 8.6. Conclusion; 9. Conclusion; 10. A Timeline of Anglophone Israeli Literature; 11. Acknowledgements; 12. Works Cited; 12.1. Academic and Critical Works.; title: 12.2. Articles and Reports without Specified Author12.3. Literary Works; 12.4. Reviews and Interviews.