RT Article
T1 "It is the hunter and you are the harpooned dolphin": Memory, Writing, and Medusa—Amos Oz and His Women
JF The Jewish quarterly review
VO 100
IS 4
SP 631
OP 648
A1 Wheatley, Natasha
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1802096310
AB 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.
K1 the feminine
K1 Writing
K1 Death
K1 oedipal
K1 Memory
K1 Jerusalem
K1 Autobiography
K1 Amos Oz