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The People of the Book and the Camera - Ofra Amihay

The People of the Book and the Camera

Photography in the Hebrew Novel

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Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2022
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-3731-8 (ISBN)
CHF 48,85 inkl. MwSt
Offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography - both as a textual element and through the inclusion of actual images - Amihay shows how the presence of visual elements in a textual work of fiction has a powerful subversive function.
Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography—both as a textual element and through the inclusion of actual images— Amihay shows how the presence of visual elements in a textual work of fiction has a powerful subversive function. Contemporary Hebrew authors have turned to photography as a tool to disrupt narratives and give voice to marginalized sectors in Israel, including women, immigrants, Mizrahi Israelis, LGBTQ+ individuals, second-generation Holocaust survivors, and traumatized army veterans.

Amihay discusses standard novels alongside graphic novels, challenging the dominance of the written word in literature. In addition to providing a poetic analysis of imagetext pages, Amihay addresses the social and political issues authors are responding to, including gender roles, Zionism, the ethnic divide in Israel, and its Palestinian minority. In exploring these avant-garde novels and their authors, Amihay elevates their significance and calls for a more expansive definition of canonical Hebrew literature.

Ofra Amihay is a lecturer of Hebrew language and literature in the Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She is the coeditor, with Lauren Walsh, of The Future of Text and Image: Collected Essays on Literary and Visual Conjunctures.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Zusatzinfo 16 colour, 19 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 149 x 226 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Fotokunst
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-8156-3731-4 / 0815637314
ISBN-13 978-0-8156-3731-8 / 9780815637318
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