Orly Castel-Bloom and Yoel Hoffmann: On Israeli Postmodern Prose Fiction
Postmodern Israeli prose fiction is a cluster of rather different novels and short stories, representing different poetics and ideological stances. Yet these different "postmodernisms" have something in common: the tendency to cling to some kind of narrative and meaning. The two writers di...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The National Association of Professors of Hebrew
2009
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Hebrew studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 215-227 |
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| Summary: | Postmodern Israeli prose fiction is a cluster of rather different novels and short stories, representing different poetics and ideological stances. Yet these different "postmodernisms" have something in common: the tendency to cling to some kind of narrative and meaning. The two writers discussed in this paper, Orly Castel-Bloom and Yoel Hoffmann, represent the "disintegrated" or "unraveled" prose fiction, characteristic of postmodernist writing. A few examples of these writers' fiction will illustrate that Israeli postmodernism, even when it deconstructs the collective narrative or the meta-narrative, doesn't actually give up the attempt, desperate as it may be, to cling onto the narrative and the promise of a meaning embodied in it. |
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| ISSN: | 2158-1681 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2009.0013 |