Heroes of Our Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13042465 |
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| Authors | Rima Shikhmanter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Israeli Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-0370 • E-ISSN: 2159-0389 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/isr.2017.320207 |
| OpenAlex | W2770465083 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article examines Devorah Omer’s first two historical children’s novels, Ben-Yehuda’s Eldest Son and Sarah, Heroine of NILI (both published in 1967), as a case study for the ideological role played by historical fiction for children and youth in 1960s Israel. A comparison of the novels with the historical sources on which Omer relied reveals how the selection of the figures of Sarah Aaronsohn and Itamar Ben-Avi allowed her to create a narrative that crossed the political divide while presenting the difficulties experienced by children and women in their encounters with the national myth. Omer’s novels thus play a dual role: they preserve the Zionist narrative and shape a collective memory consistent with the establishment of a sovereign Jewish state, while also raising issues that call into question the national narrative’s hegemonic status
Art · Hegemony · Ideology · Judaism · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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