The Boom in Contemporary Israeli Fiction

A critical introduction to contemporary Israeli literature that places works and writers in their cultural and social context. Five essays explore facets of what Mintz calls the complexity of cultural reverberations in Israeli fiction of the past two decades, a period during which "literature and the institutions of literary culture became the principal mode of encountering and mediating modernity." Among the major concerns addressed are the emergence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087451830X
• ISBN13: 9780874518306
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"