With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature (Israel: Society, Culture, and History)
ISBN-13:
9781936235834
ISBN-10:
1936235838
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch, Rani Graff
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Academic Studies Press
Format:
Hardcover
312 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781936235834
ISBN-10:
1936235838
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch, Rani Graff
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Academic Studies Press
Format:
Hardcover
312 pages
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With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature (Israel: Society, Culture, and History) (ISBN-13: 9781936235834 and ISBN-10: 1936235838), written by authors
Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch, Rani Graff, was published by Academic Studies Press in 2013.
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Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among developed nations, Israel’s origin is in a utopian novel, Theodor Herzl’s Altneuland (1902), which predicted the future Jewish state. Jewish writing in the Diaspora has always tended toward the fantastic, the mystical, and the magical. And yet, from its very inception, Israeli literature has been stubbornly realistic. The present volume challenges this stance. Originally published in Hebrew in 2009, it is the first serious, wide-ranging, and theoretically sophisticated exploration of fantasy in Israeli literature and culture. Its contributors jointly attempt to contest the question posed at the beginning: why do Israelis, living in a country whose very existence is predicated on the fulfillment of a utopian dream, distrust fantasy?
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