Dreaming the Actual

Miriyam Glazer

Description

This book introduces the powerful and provocative new fiction and poetry of Israel's women writers to an English-speaking audience. Read together, the stories and poems in this book will help to create a more sophisticated understanding of Middle Eastern passions and realities, and will foster a wealth of discussion about the meanings of homeland, exile, and diaspora; women's sexuality and spirituality; gender roles; the legacy of the Holocaust; the tensions and reconciliations of religion and secular life; the effects of war; and the power of memory.

In her introduction, Miriyam Glazer vividly reconstructs the diversities, tensions, and complexity of current Israeli literature, and the book reflects the multiculturality of modern-day Israel by including stories and poems originally written in Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, and English. Brief biographical and critical introductions are provided for each writer, and the book features specially commissioned and new translations of twenty stories and seventy-five poems, many available here for the first time in English.
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Short Stories

And She Is Joseph by Nurit Zarchi
Madame Bovary in Neve Tsedek by Nurit Zarchi
Invisible Meaning by Ruth Almog
A Piece of Cake for Saul by Mira Magen
If Nella Could Do It by Shulamith Gilboa
The Fruit of Paradise by Leah Aini
Rest by Leah Anin
"It's Greek to You," She Said to Him by Savyon Liebrecht
Hunger by Nava Semel
Schlaffstunde by Yehudit Katzir
Two Hours on the Road by Shulamith Hareven
Gerbera Daisies at Half-Price by Mira Magen
Apples in Honey by Yehudit Hendel
Photograph by Ronit Matalon

Introduction to Selected Short Stories by Orly Castel-Bloom

A Thousand Shekels a Story by Orly Castel-Bloom
The Woman Who Went Looking for a Walkie-Talkie by Orly Castel-Bloom
The Woman Whose Hand Got Stuck in the Mailbox by Orly Castel-Bloom

A special Section: Stories Translated from the Russian

Monologue of a Life Model by Dina Rubin
Rough Casting by Elena Makarova

Part II. Poetry

Yona Volach: In Memoriam

Hebrew
I Have a Stage in My Head
Tefillin
When You Come Sleep with Me
The Life You Have
Bird

Dahlia Ravikovitch

Real Love Isn't What It Seems
An Unusual Autumn
Hovering at a Low Altitude
Blood Heifer

Hedva Harechavi

1 x 2
And It Is Still That Way
Already Night, Already Day

Raquel Chalfi

Reading the I Ching
Night Hair

Maya Bejerano

I Made a New Memory for You
States of War
From "Hymns of Job"

Esther Ettinger

Excerpts from the Sabbath Dream Book
Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (I)
Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (II)
The Glass
Believe Me

Chava Pinchas-Cohen

Remebering Our Fathers
Her, Me, and Yochanan
My English Teacher
The Yearning of Karakashian
The Ineffable Name
Journey of a Doe

Hamutal Bar Yosef

Jaffa, July 1948
Reflections on a Dove
In the Library
An Angel on the Beach

Agi Mishol

Estate
The Sacred Cow of Hardship
Gravity, Death
Shopping

Devorah Amir

After Fall, 1956
I Have Longings for My Dead
What Seeps In
Thoughts about Sari's Jump
The "Nightingale" of Uncle Yair

Leah Aini

One Girl's Dance
Liquidation
In Their House
Shower
The Empress of Imagined Fertility

Nidaa Khoury

Death Is Your Salvation
People of Fire
People of Pomegranates
People of Figs
People of Olives

A Special Section: American Israeli Poets Writing in English

Shirley Kaufman

Deja Vu
Stones
Security
Job's Wife
The Mount of Olives

Linda Zisquit

From "Unopened Letters"
After Years of Feasting and No Sacrifice
A Word before the Last about Loss

Rachel Tzvia Back

Notes: From the Wait
Untitles
Abu Salim, Healer
Gaza, Undated
After Eden

Karen Alkalay-Gut

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Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780791492697
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 19 Mo

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