Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction "A Great, Oppressive, Suffocating Blasphemy": Sexualized Violence as an Insidious Trauma -- The Trope of Sexual Violence -- Sexual Violence: Affirming the Status Quo and Challenging It -- "Your Own Private Bed" -- The Illusion of Progress -- Book Structure -- Chapter One "Lights in the Darkness": Prostitution, Power, and Vulnerability in Early Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature -- "A Woman like That" -- Gershon Shofman: Prostitution and Social Determinism -- "And Ye Shall Suck One from the Other": Gershon Shofman and Hayim Nahman Bialik A Mise-en-Scène of Desire: The Trope of Prostitution -- "My Sister . . ." -- David Vogel: "A Suspect Hatred" -- "From Nowhere to Nowhere / Without Me": Conclusion -- Chapter Two Sepharadi Jewry in Pre-State Israel: Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexual Violence in the Work of Shoshana Shababo -- Arachne's Legacy -- The Daughter of the East: Writing Ethnicity -- Sexual Violence and Ethnogendered Subjectivity -- "While Bending She Could Not Bring Herself to Grasp the Land": Zionism and Sexual Aggression -- Nativeness: Shoshanah Shababo and Esther Rabb "Quivering and Withering in Her Lusts": Female Sexuality -- Sexual Violence(s) -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three "Do Not Bandage the Wounded": Wounded Soldiers and Nonconsensual Relations in Israeli War Literature -- "In a World of Dark Horrors" -- "You Easily Fall in Love with the Nurse" -- Disability in the Heterotopian Hospital -- Himmo, King of Jerusalem -- "Like a Young Girl before Her First Intimacy" -- "Break through the Siege": Himmo's Death -- Access to Pleasure -- A Doll's Leg: A Story of a War Injury -- The Seventh Glory: A Fighter's Story "Only a Brief, One-Time Baptism by Fire": Conclusion -- Chapter Four "Subduing the Terrible Sound of Silence": Memoirs of Incest Survivors -- Introduction -- Intertwined Narratives -- A Rhizomatic Story -- "New Language": An Alliance between Writers and Readers -- The Person That Murdered You Is Also the Person That Made You the Best" -- "Although the Selection and Fragmentation Err Reality, It May Actually Reinforce It" -- "To Be Made Up of Separate Parts" -- Summary: The Cliché of the Memoir Chapter Five "The Girl with the Billy-Goat's Hoof ": Parental Abuse, Metamorphosis, and Poetics in the Poetry of Tsvia Litevsky -- "Being Your Daughter": The Father Figure -- "Rebirth" -- Calling It by Name: From Trauma to Art -- "Any Distance / Is the Thrill of My Returning to You": The Mother Figure -- A Cry of Privation -- "Ah, Let the Children Come" -- Conclusion "Silence Cries Out" -- The Untold Stories -- An Apologetic Note -- Amalia Kahana-Carmon: "Beer Sheva, the Capital of the Negev" -- Wartime Sexual Violence -- A Poetic of Dispersions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary:
"Looks at how sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability in the modern Hebrew literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture
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