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Middle Eastern Gothics is the first scholarly volume on Gothic
literature from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Its nine
chapters consider literary expressions of the Gothic in the major
Middle Eastern languages - Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish.
Spanning the Maghreb, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, Turkey,
Egypt and Palestine, the book makes a case for the transnational
region - a cohesive geographic space encompassing diverse cultures,
languages and histories that parallel, intersect or overlap - as a
crucial locus of Gothic Studies, alongside the nation, the globe or
the hyper-local. Across the MENA region, the Gothic helps express
ongoing literary negotiations with modernity, leaving its
distinctive mark on representations of globalisation, colonialism
and nationalism. At the same time, Middle Eastern literary texts
expand the boundaries of the mode on their own terms, refracting
broad histories through local and indigenous forms, figures and
narratives that we might associate with the Gothic.
Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost
Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz,
reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The ghosts
of a murdered Talmud scholar and his kidnapped bride rise from
their graves for a nocturnal dance of death; a girl hidden by a
count in a secret chamber of an Eastern European castle emerges to
find that, unbeknownst to her, World War II ended years earlier; a
man recounts the act of incest that would shape a trajectory of
personal and national history. Reading these works together with
central British and American gothic texts, Karen Grumberg
illustrates that modern Hebrew literature has regularly
appropriated key gothic ideas to help conceptualize the Jewish
relationship to the past and, more broadly, to time. She explores
why these authors were drawn to the gothic, originally a European
mode associated with antisemitism, and how they use it to challenge
assumptions about power and powerlessness, vulnerability and
violence, and to shape modern Hebrew culture. Grumberg provides an
original perspective on Hebrew literary engagement with history and
sheds new light on the tensions that continue to characterize
contemporary Israeli cultural and political rhetoric.
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Dolly City (Paperback)
Orly Castel-Bloom; Translated by Dalya Bilu; Afterword by Karen Grumberg
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" "Dolly City" -- a city without a base, without a past, without
an infrastructure. The most demented city in the world." In the
midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all
our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of
Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic bag, and decides
to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly
dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her
surgical passion onto her son, who she names "Son." Ceaselessly
cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the
all-too-familiar Jewish Mother, forever operating upon her son with
destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the
defensive measures taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom, one of
Israel's most provocative and original writers, turns her own
scalpel upon that most holy of institutions, the myth of motherhood
-- and its implications in the work of a nation. Gruesome,
irreverent, and hilarious, "Dolly City" is widely recognized as one
of the most disconcerting -- and brilliant -- works ever written in
Hebrew.
Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost
Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz,
reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The ghosts
of a murdered Talmud scholar and his kidnapped bride rise from
their graves for a nocturnal dance of death; a girl hidden by a
count in a secret chamber of an Eastern European castle emerges to
find that, unbeknownst to her, World War II ended years earlier; a
man recounts the act of incest that would shape a trajectory of
personal and national history. Reading these works together with
central British and American gothic texts, Karen Grumberg
illustrates that modern Hebrew literature has regularly
appropriated key gothic ideas to help conceptualize the Jewish
relationship to the past and, more broadly, to time. She explores
why these authors were drawn to the gothic, originally a European
mode associated with antisemitism, and how they use it to challenge
assumptions about power and powerlessness, vulnerability and
violence, and to shape modern Hebrew culture. Grumberg provides an
original perspective on Hebrew literary engagement with history and
sheds new light on the tensions that continue to characterize
contemporary Israeli cultural and political rhetoric.
John Brinckerhoff Jackson has theorized the vernacular landscape as
one that reflects a way of life guided by tradition and custom,
distanced from the larger world of politics and law. The quotidian
space is shaped by the everyday culture of its inhabitants. In
Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature, Grumberg sets
anchor in this and other contemporary theories of space and place,
then embarks on subtle close readings of recent Israeli fiction
that demonstrate how literature in practice can complicate those
discourses. Literature in Israel over the past twenty-five years
tends to be set in ordinary spaces rather than in explicitly,
ideologically charged locations such as contested borders and
debated territories. Rarely taking place in settings of war and
political violence, it is replete with evocative descriptions of
everyday places such as buses and cafés. Yet in academic
discussions, the imaginative representations of these sites tend to
be neglected in favor of spaces more relevant to religious and
political debates. To fill this gap, Grumberg proposes a new
understanding of how Israeli identity is mapped onto the spaces it
inhabits, particularly the concrete sites encountered in the daily
lives of ordinary citizens. She demonstrates that in the writing of
many Israeli novelists even mundane places often have significant
ideological implications. Exploring a wide range of authors, from
Amos Oz to Orly Castel-Bloom, Grumberg argues that literary
depictions of vernacular spaces play a profound and often
unidentified role in serving or resisting ideology.
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