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02584aam a22003258i 4500 001 AA3E8E18F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 230725s2023 nyu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1438492499 020 $a 9781438492490 020 $a 1438492480 020 $a 9781438492483 035 $a (OCoLC)1393180442 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d SILO 050 4 $a PN 245 00 $a Amos Oz : $b the legacy of a writer in Israel and beyond / $c edited by Ranen Omer-Sherman. 264 1 $a Albany : $b SUNY Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 424 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture 520 8 $a The veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939?2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what was then Palestine under British rule, Oz's life spanned the country's entire history, and both his fiction and nonfiction restlessly probe and illuminate its fraught conflicts, contradictions, and ambivalences. Throughout his career, Oz grappled frankly with the often-painful realities of Israeli life while also celebrating the ebullience of the Israeli spirit, and his sophisticated understanding of the sociopolitical turmoil of his society was always accompanied by intensely lyrical language and deep penetrations into the vulnerabilities of the human psyche. The volume's twenty contributors bring an exciting diversity of concerns and perspectives to Oz's most celebrated novels (including his powerfully resonant final novel, Judas) as well as to overlooked facets of his oeuvre, illuminating the breathtaking scope of his literary legacy. Together, they offer gripping analyses of his urgent and profoundly universal works about political and romantic dreamers whose heartfelt struggles with both their own human frailties and those of the state ultimately resonate far beyond Israel itself. 600 10 $a Oz, Amos, $d 1939-2018 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Oz, Amos, $d 1939-2018 $x Public opinion. 600 10 $a Oz, Amos, $d 1939-2018 $x Political and social views. 700 1 $a Omer-Sherman, Ranen, $e editor. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000116424236. 830 0 $a SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403014337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AA3E8E18F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search