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- Dreaming the Actual: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Israeli Women Writers
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
summary
This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English. This book introduces the powerful and provocative new fiction and poetry of Israel’s women writers to an English-speaking audience. Read together, the stories and poems in this book will help to create a more sophisticated understanding of Middle Eastern passions and realities, and will foster a wealth of discussion about the meanings of homeland, exile, and diaspora; women’s sexuality and spirituality; gender roles; the legacy of the Holocaust; the tensions and reconciliations of religion and secular life; the effects of war; and the power of memory.
In her introduction, Miriyam Glazer vividly reconstructs the diversities, tensions, and complexity of current Israeli literature, and the book reflects the multiculturality of modern-day Israel by including stories and poems originally written in Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, and English. Brief biographical and critical introductions are provided for each writer, and the book features specially commissioned and new translations of twenty stories and seventy-five poems, many available here for the first time in English.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part I: Short Stories
- And She Is Joseph
- pp. 19-23
- Madame Bovary in Neve Tsedek
- pp. 27-32
- Invisible Mending
- pp. 36-49
- A Piece of Cake for Saul
- pp. 52-57
- If Nella Could Do It
- pp. 59-67
- The Fruit of Paradise
- pp. 71-75
- "It's Greek to You," She Said to Him
- pp. 83-98
- Introduction to Nava Semel's "Hunger"
- pp. 99-100
- Schlaffstunde
- pp. 126-147
- Two Hours on the Road
- pp. 151-162
- Gerbera Daisies at Half-Price
- pp. 165-181
- Apples in Honey
- pp. 185-192
- Introduction to Ronit Matalon's "Photograph"
- pp. 193-194
- Photograph
- pp. 195-199
- A Thousand Shekels a Story
- pp. 202-205
- Monologue of a Life Model
- pp. 217-225
- Rough Casting
- pp. 226-240
- Part II: Poetry
- Yona Volach: In Memoriam
- pp. 243-244
- When You Come Sleep with Me
- pp. 251-252
- The Life You Have
- p. 253
- Dahlia Ravikovitch
- pp. 256-257
- Real Love Isn't What It Seems
- pp. 258-259
- An Unusual Autumn
- pp. 260-261
- Hovering at a Low Altitude
- pp. 262-264
- Blood Heifer
- pp. 265-266
- Hedva Harechavi
- p. 267
- And It Is Still That Way
- pp. 274-275
- Already Night, Already Day
- pp. 276-277
- Raquel Chalfi
- p. 278
- Reading the I Ching
- pp. 279-281
- Night Hair
- pp. 282-283
- Maya Bejerano
- p. 284
- I Made a New Memory for You
- pp. 285-286
- States of War
- pp. 287-288
- From "The Hymns of Job"
- pp. 289-297
- Esther Ettinger
- pp. 298-299
- Excerpts from the Sabbath Dream Book
- pp. 300-301
- Believe Me
- pp. 306-307
- Chava Pinchas-Cohen
- p. 308
- Remembering Our Fathers
- pp. 307-311
- Her, Me, and Yochanan
- pp. 312-313
- My English Teacher
- p. 314
- The Yearning of Karakashian
- pp. 315-316
- The Ineffable Name
- pp. 317-318
- Journey of a Doe
- pp. 323-325
- Hamutal Bar Yosef
- p. 326
- Jaffa, July 1948
- p. 327
- Reflections on a Dove
- pp. 328-330
- In the Library
- pp. 331-332
- An Angel on the Beach
- p. 333
- Agi Mishol
- p. 334
- The Sacred Cow of Hardship
- pp. 337-338
- Gravity, Death
- p. 339
- Devorah Amir
- p. 342
- After Fall, 1956
- p. 343
- What Seeps In
- p. 345
- Thoughts about Sari's Jump
- pp. 346-347
- One Girl's Dance
- p. 349
- Liquidation
- p. 350
- In Their House
- p. 351
- Nidaa Khoury
- p. 355
- Death Is Your Salvation
- pp. 356-357
- People of Fire
- p. 358
- People of Pomegranates
- p. 359
- People of Figs
- p. 360
- People of Olives
- p. 361
- Shirley Kaufman
- p. 364
- Job's Wife
- p. 371
- The Mount of Olives
- p. 372
- Linda Zisquit
- p. 373
- From "Unopened Letters"
- pp. 374-375
- Rachel Tzvia Back
- pp. 378-379
- Notes: From the Wait
- pp. 380-381
- Abu Salim, Healer
- pp. 384-385
- Gaza, Undated
- pp. 386-387
- After Eden
- p. 388
- Karen Alkalay-Gut
- p. 389
- From "Between Bombardments: A Journal"
- pp. 390-392
- Kitzbuhl Church
- p. 393
- Public Outcry
- pp. 394-395
- Transportation
- pp. 396-398
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791492697
MARC Record
OCLC
811404035
Pages
414
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No