Ayelet Ben-Yishai
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayelet Ben-Yishai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayelet |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Yishai |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-YISHAI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“A Look She Cannot Read”
Paul Lynch's 2023 dystopic novel, Prophet Song, depicts a fictional totalitarian crisis in contemporary Ireland. The narrative, told entirely in free indirect discourse, follows the mind of its protagonist, Eilish, as she tries to do the right thing for her diminishing family in an increasingly oppressive, claustrophobic, and dangerous state of emergency. Exploring ways of knowing in the novel, this essay examines the interplay between its narrat…
Against Inevitability
Emergency situations around the world have always presented a complicated and ostensibly paradoxical mix of crisis and continuity. This essay builds on the author's research into the cultural and literary history of the Emergency in India (1975 – 77) and on a reading of Paul Lynch's 2023 novel Prophet Song to address the ongoing and horrific crisis of 2023–24 in Palestine and Israel. Turning to genre as a way to look at emergencies and the ways i…
Genres of Emergency
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption
In the increasingly urgent public debates on India’s democracy, the Emergency (1975–77) is emerging as an important interpretative site: an exceptionally violent episode marked as a one-off crisis that also allows for an ongoing renegotiation of a modern Indian polity and culture. Manohar Malgonkar’s The Garland Keepers (1980), a little-known, fast-paced and highly entertaining political spy thriller, provides one entry point to situate the Emerg…
Through English, Densely
Research Article| August 01 2021 Through English, Densely: Partitions, Complicity, and the Anglophone Classroom Ayelet Ben-Yishai Ayelet Ben-Yishai Ayelet Ben-Yishai teaches postcolonial and Victorian literature at the University of Haifa. A comparatist by training, she has written on realism and the novel, on the intersections of law and literature, and on the Indian novel in English. She is currently completing a manuscript titled Genres of Eme…
Emergency Chronicles
It is surely not a coincidence that 2019, arguably one of the most fraught years of Indian democracy, has also seen the publication of two new monographs on the 1975–77 Indian Emergency, one by his
Realism
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Reading Counterfactually
In thinking about Catherine Gallagher's Telling It Like It Wasn't , let us first consider three almost random, and definitely unrelated, examples
Walking the Boundaries in Victorian Fiction
By its very presence”
Shashi Deshpande’s persistent realism has gone largely unmarked in the scholarship on her work and yet provides an important example of the ways in which the Indian novel in English has continued to rewrite, rework, and yet ultimately keep up a dominant realist capacity. Reading her 1996 novel, A Matter of Time, I argue that Deshpande explicitly rejects a modernist and postcolonial aesthetic in favour of a pedestrian and decidedly conventional re…
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope pr…
Victorian Precedents
Victorian-era law reports are often choppy or truncated, miserly in detail, and utterly lacking in character descriptions, creating what I have identified as an “anti-narrative” style. This article shows how the law reports use narrative conventions — often in counter-intuitive ways — to manifest the tension between a concrete case and the abstract rule which is its potential precedent. Incorporating a discussion of nineteenth-century theories of…
By its very presence”
Shashi Deshpande’s persistent realism has gone largely unmarked in the scholarship on her work and yet provides an important example of the ways in which the Indian novel in English has continued to rewrite, rework, and yet ultimately keep up a dominant realist capacity. Reading her 1996 novel, A Matter of Time, I argue that Deshpande explicitly rejects a modernist and postcolonial aesthetic in favour of a pedestrian and decidedly conventional re…
Victorian Precedents
Victorian-era law reports are often choppy or truncated, miserly in detail, and utterly lacking in character descriptions, creating what I have identified as an “anti-narrative” style. This article shows how the law reports use narrative conventions — often in counter-intuitive ways — to manifest the tension between a concrete case and the abstract rule which is its potential precedent. Incorporating a discussion of nineteenth-century theories of…
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope pr…
Walking the Boundaries in Victorian Fiction
By its very presence”
Shashi Deshpande’s persistent realism has gone largely unmarked in the scholarship on her work and yet provides an important example of the ways in which the Indian novel in English has continued to rewrite, rework, and yet ultimately keep up a dominant realist capacity. Reading her 1996 novel, A Matter of Time, I argue that Deshpande explicitly rejects a modernist and postcolonial aesthetic in favour of a pedestrian and decidedly conventional re…
Realism
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Reading Counterfactually
In thinking about Catherine Gallagher's Telling It Like It Wasn't , let us first consider three almost random, and definitely unrelated, examples
Emergency Chronicles
It is surely not a coincidence that 2019, arguably one of the most fraught years of Indian democracy, has also seen the publication of two new monographs on the 1975–77 Indian Emergency, one by his
Through English, Densely
Research Article| August 01 2021 Through English, Densely: Partitions, Complicity, and the Anglophone Classroom Ayelet Ben-Yishai Ayelet Ben-Yishai Ayelet Ben-Yishai teaches postcolonial and Victorian literature at the University of Haifa. A comparatist by training, she has written on realism and the novel, on the intersections of law and literature, and on the Indian novel in English. She is currently completing a manuscript titled Genres of Eme…
The Thrill of Emergency and the Chronic Crisis of Corruption
In the increasingly urgent public debates on India’s democracy, the Emergency (1975–77) is emerging as an important interpretative site: an exceptionally violent episode marked as a one-off crisis that also allows for an ongoing renegotiation of a modern Indian polity and culture. Manohar Malgonkar’s The Garland Keepers (1980), a little-known, fast-paced and highly entertaining political spy thriller, provides one entry point to situate the Emerg…
Genres of Emergency
Against Inevitability
Emergency situations around the world have always presented a complicated and ostensibly paradoxical mix of crisis and continuity. This essay builds on the author's research into the cultural and literary history of the Emergency in India (1975 – 77) and on a reading of Paul Lynch's 2023 novel Prophet Song to address the ongoing and horrific crisis of 2023–24 in Palestine and Israel. Turning to genre as a way to look at emergencies and the ways i…
“A Look She Cannot Read”
Paul Lynch's 2023 dystopic novel, Prophet Song, depicts a fictional totalitarian crisis in contemporary Ireland. The narrative, told entirely in free indirect discourse, follows the mind of its protagonist, Eilish, as she tries to do the right thing for her diminishing family in an increasingly oppressive, claustrophobic, and dangerous state of emergency. Exploring ways of knowing in the novel, this essay examines the interplay between its narrat…
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