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001 2005021530
003 DLC
005 20050919180425.0
008 050727s2006 ilu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005021530
020 $a9780252030437 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0252030435 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPJ5012.W54$bO44 2006
082 00 $a892.4/0932154$222
100 1 $aOmer-Sherman, Ranen.
245 10 $aIsrael in exile :$bJewish writing and the desert /$cRanen Omer-Sherman.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c2006.
263 $a0509
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe voice must remain in the desert : the poetics and politics of representing desert wilderness in Jewish narrative -- The deception of miracles was keeping them purblind and lost : justice and the old/new Jewish nation in Shulamith Hareven's Thirst : the desert trilogy -- Desert space and national consciousness : the circuitous journey of the citizen-soldier in Amos Oz's A perfect peace -- On the outskirts of the Promised Land : immobilized rebels in narratives by Hayim Nahman Bialik and David Grossman -- Two case studies in the Sinai of the diasporic imagination : Simone Zelitch's and Edmond Jabes' Nomadic god of heretics and strangers -- To return symbolically to life in the desert : wilderness as experience and metaphor in contemporary life.
650 0 $aWilderness areas in literature.
650 0 $aIsraeli literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aJewish literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
630 00 $aBible.$pO.T.$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005021530.html