| Flesh of My Flesh: Sexual Violence in Modern Hebrew Literature Contributor(s): Szobel, Ilana (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438484550 ISBN-13: 9781438484556 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 892.409 |
| LCCN: 2020043046 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.28 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Flesh of My Flesh looks at one of the most silenced and repressed aspects of Israeli culture by examining the trope of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature. Ilana Szobel explores how sexual violence participates in, encourages, or resists concurrent ideologies in Jewish and Israeli culture, and situates the rhetoric of sexual aggression within the contexts of gender, ethnicity, disability, and national identity. Focusing on writings of incest survivors, Sepharadi authors, wounded soldiers, and Hebrew authors such as Shoshana Shababo, Gershon Shofman, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Yoram Kaniuk, Amalia Kahana-Carmon, and Tsvia Litevsky, Szobel unveils the various roles of sexual violence in destabilizing hegemonic notions or reinforcing norms and modes of conduct. Thus, while the book looks at poetic and social possibilities of action in relation to sexual violence, it also exposes the Gordian knot of sexualized gender-based violence and the interests of patriarchy, heteronormativity, nationalism, racism, and ableism. |