"[Hever] offers an alternative reading of the historiography of
Hebrew literature and of major narratives in it."
-- "Reference & Research Book News"
A people's writings can play a dramatic role in nation building,
as the development of modern Hebrew literature powerfully
illustrates. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Hebrew
writers in Europe and Palestine/Israel have produced texts and
consolidated moments in the shaping of national identity.
Yet, this process has not always been a unified and continuous
one. The processes of canon formation and the suppression of
heterodox discourses have been played out publicly and
vociferously. Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon offers a sweeping
view of the entirety of modern Hebrew literature, from Berdichevski
and Agnon to Shammas and Habiby, shedding light on the moments of
rupture and reversal which have undermined efforts to construct a
hegemonic Zionist narrative. It provides a model for understanding
the relations between minority and majority voices in postcolonial
situations, showing these processes working and changing over time,
from the earliest days of the creation of a labor Zionist
sensibility for literature to Israeli state culture and the
discourses of Arab otherness.
By illuminating both the process of canon formation as well as
the voices excluded from the canon, Producing the Modern Hebrew
Canon offers a powerful alternative reading of twentieth century
Hebrew fiction.
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