Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
TriQuarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
79 (1990) 207-219
Keywords:
Layton, Irving,
;
Amichai, Yehuda,
Abstract:
Criticizes the usurpation of catastrophes in Jewish history for political and literary purposes - for example, by the Israeli Right in order to justify actions of the state, and by the Canadian Jewish poet Irving Layton in his collection "Fortunate Exile" (1987). States that any sense of an identity constituted fundamentally by victimization is a problematic basis for either an individual or a group to build upon. Contrasts Layton's violent language, in which a sense of life is missing, with the poetry of Celan who created a poetics commensurate with the bitterest destiny of his people, and with the poetry of Yehuda Amichai who resists the urge towards a lamentatory rhetoric.
Note:
Especially on the poetry of Irving Layton and Yehuda Amichai.
URL:
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