Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2017
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
48 (2017) 81-104
Keywords:
Jabotinsky, Vladimir,
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Jabotinsky, Vladimir, Political and social views
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Hebrew fiction, Modern History and criticism
;
Jews Identity 20th century
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History
Abstract:
This paper offers a postcolonial reading of Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky’s Samson and his oeuvre of journalistic commentary with the aim of understanding Jabotinsky’s contribution to the conceptualization of the East in the Zionist discourses vis-à-vis British and Russian imperialism. Despite the novel’s appeal to the Jewish Zionist readership, Samson is clearly linked to the genre of colonialist adventure stories in English literature as well as to spatial images in nineteenth-century Russian literature and to the topics of sexuality and mythopoesis in Russian modernism. The article shows how the imaging of frontiers and representations of masculinity in Russian literature influenced Jabotinsky’s Zionist literary thinking. In addition, the paper explores the relationship between imperialist orientation, poetic ideologies, and aesthetic education. The discussion focuses on Jabotinsky’s revision of the role of the Russian Empire and Russian literature in the Jewish liberation project and his quest for the alternative found in the British Empire and in British literature. In this sense, the article deals not only with the issue of Jewish identity in the age of imperialism but also with the place of the Russian Empire and Russian literature in the imperial discourse and in postcolonial criticism.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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