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Imagining the Kibbutz - Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film (Hardcover)
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Imagining the Kibbutz - Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film (Hardcover)
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In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary
and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that
became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise.
Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration
of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in
scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have
appeared, but no book-length study has ever addressed the
tremendous range of critically imaginative portrayals of the
kibbutz. This diachronic study addresses novels, short fiction,
memoirs, and cinematic portrayals of the kibbutz by both kibbutz
“insiders” (including those born and raised there, as well as
those who joined the kibbutz as immigrants or migrants from the
city) and “outsiders.” For these artists, the kibbutz is a
crucial microcosm for understanding Israeli values and identity.
The central drama explored in their works is the monumental tension
between the individual and the collective, between individual
aspiration and ideological rigor, between self-sacrifice and
self-fulfillment. Portraying kibbutz life honestly demands
retaining at least two oppositional things in mind at once—the
absolute necessity of euphoric dreaming and the mellowing
inevitability of disillusionment. As such, these artists’
imaginative witnessing of the fraught relation between the
collective and the citizen-soldier is the story of Israel itself.
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