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Prooftexts, 2014-04, Vol.34 (2), p.232-270
2014

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Titel
A Uniform of a Writer: Literature, Ideology and Sexual Violence in the Writing of Rivka Alper
Ist Teil von
  • Prooftexts, 2014-04, Vol.34 (2), p.232-270
Ort / Verlag
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • This essay explores the politics of women's writing in the Zionist yishuv by examining the literary career of Rivka Alper, whose work features a difficult clash between a “feminine” narrative of sexual trauma and Zionist ideology. I discuss Alper's literary trajectory from her first novel,Pirpurey mahapekha, a coming-ofage story of a young woman, which foregrounds themes of sexual trauma and gendered violence, to her second project,Ha-mitnaḥalim ba-har, a biography of a Zionist role model, one of the women founders of the colony of Motza. Alper's transition from “personal” fiction to ideological literature is part of a process of an arduous self-fashioning toward carving a place for herself, albeit marginal, in the Zionist republic of letters. Her process demonstrates the predicament of writing as a woman in a Zionist cultural space that marks writing as an emasculating practice, but exclusively assigns male writers the role of national subjects. In such a space, I argue, transitioning to marginal genres in order to write for the collective emerges as a privileged alternative for an aspiring woman writer. And yet, as contents from Alper's fictional writing infiltrate her biographic writing, the literariness of her “less literary” text exposes the exclusions that lie at the heart of the Zionist ideological project, and, in turn, reinscribes “the feminine” as a composite marker of these exclusions back into the Zionist text.
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISSN: 0272-9601, 1086-3311
eISSN: 1086-3311
DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.34.2.232
Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_journals_1773928152

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