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This book is the first to systematically examine the representation of women by mainstream Hebrew authors from the Palmah Generation to the New Wave. Fuchs' unique analytical method exposes the male-centered bias which often inspires the works of such prominent and widely translated authors as S. Yizhar, Moshe Shamir, A. B. Yehoshua and Amos Oz. She exposes both the continuities and the transformations in the literary representations of women and explains them in innovative ways, grounded in aesthetic, social, political, and cultural conditions and ideologies.
The bold and unexpected discoveries offered by this book illuminate the complex ways in which Israel's political predicaments, for example, affect the representation of women, as well as the various ways in which Israeli literature uses female images to express the anxiety and frustration arising from these predicaments. This pioneering study will be invaluable to feminist literary critics, scholars, and teachers and students of modern Hebrew literature.
"What I like most about this book is the new perspective on the subject. The topic is indeed central to the study of modern Hebrew literature because it supplies a perspective that is absent in contemporary criticism of Israeli fiction, demonstrates a serious imbalance in fiction and criticism alike, and presents a challenge to which writers and critics must respond." — Miri Amihai, Cornell University
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Generation of Statehood
Gyniconological Transformations and Continuities
The Female Other as National Enemy
Chapter 3. A.B. Yehoshua: The Lack of Consciousness
Yehoshua's Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Inaccessible Wife
Summary
Chapter 4. Amos Oz: The Lack of Conscience
Where the Jackals Howl: Woman as Sex
Elsewhere Perhaps: Amos Oz's Gyniconology and National Otherness
My Michael: Woman as Political Enemy
Summary
Chapter 5. Gynographic Re-visions: Amalia Kahana-Carmon
The Woman Author as Other
Under One Roof: The Antiromantic Romantic Story
Chapter 6. Self-Conscious Heroism: And Moon in the Valley of Ajalon
The Desire to Be at the Top
The Female Predicament
Noa Talmor and Hana Gonen: A Female-Authored Heroine Meets Her Male-Authored Counterpart
Toward a Conclusion: The Woman Author as Other
Notes
Index