Description
Book SynopsisSinister tales written since the early twentieth century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture.
Trade ReviewGrumberg shows that scholarship of Hebrew literature stands to gain from a reassessment of this corpus outside the conventional frameworks of Hebrew literary history and more classical European literature.
-- Maya Barzilai - University of Michigan * AJS Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction. Gothic Matters
Part I. A Spectralized Past
1. Always Already Gothic: S. Y. Agnon's European Tales of Terror
2. Maternal Macabre: Feminine Subjectivity at the Edge of the Shtetl in Dvora Baron and Ya'akov Shteinberg
3. After the Nightmare of the Holocaust: Gothic Temporalities in Leah Goldberg and Edgar Allan Poe
Part II. Haunted Nation
4. Dark Jerusalem: Amos Oz's Anxious Literary Cartography between 1948 and 1967
5. Historiographic Perversions: Echoes of Otranto in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani
6. A Séance for the Self: Memory, Nonmemory, and the Reorientation of History in Almog Behar and Toni Morrison
Coda. "Here Are Our Monsters": Hebrew Horror from the Political to Pop
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