Rereading “Decadent” Palestinian Hebrew Literature
The Intersection of Zionism, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Aharon Reuveni's ‘ Ad Yerushalayim
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12013837 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Philip Hollander (University of Wisconsin–Madison, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2015 |
| Volumen | 39 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 3-26 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2015-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0364-0094 • E-ISSN: 1475-4541 |
| Editorial | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0364009414000622 |
| OpenAlex | W2604759360 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 24 |
This article asserts that politics motivated Aharon Reuveni to employ representations of psychic fragmentation and dysfunctional social institutions to portray Palestinian Jewish life in his novelistic trilogy ‘Ad Yerushalayim . These purportedly decadent representations helped him foreground individual and collective flaws he saw limiting the early twentieth-century Palestinian Jewish community's development and promote norms he saw as conducive to growth. Thus, as examination of the trilogy's central male figures demonstrates, Reuveni advances a Zionist masculinity grounded in introspectiveness and ongoing commitment to the achievement of communally shared goals. To further support this Zionist masculine form, the trilogy categorizes men who pursue homosocial ties with others who don't maintain this masculinity as homosexuals. Thus gender and sexuality are used to coerce male readers into adopting specific behavioral norms. This attention to gender and sexuality's role in early twentieth-century Palestinian Hebrew fiction offers a way to grasp its long-overlooked political character
Aesthetics · Art · Hebrew · Human sexuality · Judaism · Literature · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Trilogy · Zionism · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Psychology
Jewish self-hatred
The Image of Man
Between Men
Recovered Roots
Manhood in the making
Becoming Hebrew
Defenders of the Race
Muscular Judaism
Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity
Hebrew Writing of the First World War
From Continuity to Contiguity
Exorcising the "Angel of National Death" -- National and Individual Death (and Rebirth) in Zionist Palestine
Heroic Conduct
Hegemonic Masculinity
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |