"It is the hunter and you are the harpooned dolphin": Memory, Writing, and Medusa—Amos Oz and His Women
This article reads Amos Oz's memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness against the long tradition of encountering Jerusalem in literature. It argues that Oz's impulse to write arises from a troubled relationship with the feminine: his creative act consists in a recurring reflex of repulsion when...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2010
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| In: |
The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2010, Volume: 100, Issue: 4, Pages: 631-648 |
| Further subjects: | B
Autobiography
B Memory B Jerusalem B Writing B Death B the feminine B Amos Oz B oedipal |
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Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This article reads Amos Oz's memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness against the long tradition of encountering Jerusalem in literature. It argues that Oz's impulse to write arises from a troubled relationship with the feminine: his creative act consists in a recurring reflex of repulsion when confronted with women and "their emotions." The psycho-sexual conflation of women, memory and Jerusalem – and especially the need both to flee from and master these female figures and their demands – structures his storytelling in an all too contemporary portrait of Jerusalem as a site of desire, conquest, and death. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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