Heinrich Heine and the Spaces of Zionist Literature
"Rokem's book offers a powerful reassessment of both the legacy of Heine in Hebrew literature and the aesthetic challenges that Zionist authors faced in producing a national prose fiction from, ultimately, the pragmatic conditions of diaspora. At times the two arguments appear to run parallel to each other, but Rokem brings them into direct conversation in the conclusion." --H-Net
Naama Rokem is an assistant professor of modern Hebrew literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
Preface One: Prose Regnant: World, State and Subject in Hegels Lectures on Aesthetics Two: Heinrich Heine, Explorer of the Current Prosaic Condition Three: Meditated Situatedness in the Reception of Heinrich Heine Four: Theodor Herzls Technocratic World-Making in Prose Five: Haim Nahman Bialiks Icy River of Prose Six: Heine and the Israeli Novel Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography