The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua by Yael Haleviwise

The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua by Yael Haleviwise

Explores the layers of signification that A. B. Yehoshua constructs in his fiction to draw readers into a critical analysis of the condition of Israel as well as his representations of place, vocational identities, names, holidays, and love.

“For anyone looking to better understand the artistry of Yehoshua’s fiction or to better decipher his novels’ messages, this book is indispensable”

—Philip Hollander Sephardic Horizons

“Halevi-Wise’s pithy pronouncements are bound to educate and delight researcher and lay literature lover alike.”

—Laura Wiseman Hebrew Higher Education

“This integrative volume presents a fine-grained analysis of Yehoshua’s stance as a writer who targets historical and cultural dilemmas in Jewish and Israeli existence.”

—Adia Mendelson-Maoz AJS Review

“[An] engaging thematic study of Yehoshua’s work.”

—Liam Hoare The Tel Aviv Review of Books

“Yael Halevi-Wise’s book on A. B. Yehoshua is a useful, intelligent introduction to the fiction of arguably the most talented Israeli novelist.”

—Dan Miron, author of From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

“The work of A. B. Yehoshua—one of Israel's most important writers since the 1960s—has long merited a full, book-length study in English. Yael Halevi-Wise's book has the virtue of broad scope, including commentary on a range of works from Yehoshua’s earliest writing up to his latest novel, from 2018. It offers an overview of his multilayered narrative techniques as well as chapters on a variety of themes and signature moves in his oeuvre.”

—Naomi Sokoloff, coeditor of What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (And What It Means to Americans)

Yael Halevi-Wise is Associate Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at McGill University. She is the author of Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel and the editor of Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination.

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ISBN 13	9780271087856
ISBN 10	0271087854
Title	The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua
Author	Yael Haleviwise
Series	Dimyonot
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2020-12-15
Number of pages	226
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