Memory and space in the autobiographical writings of Amos Oz and Ronit Matalon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12534871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adia Mendelson-Maoz (Department of Literature, Language and Arts, The Open University of Israel, Ra’anana, Israel), Adia Mendelson‐Maoz (0000-0001-7362-674X, Open University of Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 389-414 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Israeli History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-1042 • E-ISSN: 1744-0548 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13531042.2020.1865320 |
| OpenAlex | W3120979987 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
This article discusses the autobiographical writings of Amos Oz and Ronit Matalon and focuses on A Tale of Love and Darkness (2002) and The Sound of Our Steps (2008). Although the novels differ in terms of era, language, ethnic background, and the gender of the narrator/protagonist, the core plot of mother and child, the spatial concepts of home, garden, and land, and other shared structural elements invite comparison. This reading nevertheless pinpoints their disparity: whereas Oz’s own trajectory elicits empathy, redefines the notion of personal life stories and their ideological role in Israeli society, and eventually justifies the Zionist ideology, Matalon’s poetics of rupture creates unease that subverts the possibility to voice one’s personal story and challenges the national narrative and its validity
Aesthetics · Art · Empathy · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Plot (graphics · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Women, autobiography, theory
Self as Nation
The Limits of Autobiography
EmpathyPhilosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Empathy and the Novel
This Sex Which is Not One
The Fallacy of Analogy and the Risk of Moral Imperialism
The SabraThe Creation of the New Jew
Poetic Trespass
The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
Unclaimed Experience
Amos Oz’s a Tale of Love and Darkness Within the Framework of Immigration Narratives in Modern Hebrew Literature
In Spite of Partition
The ?Mythological Sabra? and Jewish Past
Autobiographics
Talking Back
Writing history, writing trauma
Imagined communities
Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory
Representing Others
I Killed My Grandmother
The Laugh of the Medusa
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |