Rachel S. Harris is assistant-professor of Israeli Literature and Culture in the Department of Comparative and World Literature and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published articles on Israeli literature in The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies and Israel Studies. She is also the series editor for the Dalkey Archive Press series Hebrew Literature in Translation. Ranen Omer-Sherman is professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert and Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature and editor of The Jewish Graphic Novel. He lived in Israel for thirteen years as a founding member of a desert kibbutz and served in the IDF as a paratrooper.
Narratives of Dissent is a rich and wide-ranging collection, which
provides anglophone readers a window into contemporary Israeli
society. The essays in the volume discuss and analyze numerous
representations of what functions as one of Israel's most unifying
and yet dividing forces: war. . . . That the writers and editors
manage to transcend politically controversial discourse and discuss
the issue from a very neutral perspective is a good indication of
the professional merits of their achievement.--Neta Stahl "H-Net
Judaic"
A groundbreaking volume, unprecedented in its breadth and depth. It
promises to be the most comprehensive and up-to- date
multidisciplinary volume on this subject.--Shachar Pinsker
A worthy addition to Israeli cultural studies and to the emerging
ethno/musicological subfield of music and violence studies. Some of
the topics covered in the volume are rarely addressed in English
language scholarship, and this book makes an important contribution
to Israeli Studies by offering case studies beyond canonical works,
in addition to the niche focus of some of the chapters. Scholars
and teachers will surely find a wealth of highly specific studies
and diverse authorial voices here, which, as a whole, make
substantial contributions to these fields. The originality of the
two musical chapters and the interweaving of extensive ethnography
with critical analysis certainly make a noteworthy contribution to
contemporary ethno/musicological studies of Israel.--Mili Leitner
Cohen "Musica Judaica Online Review"
The collection thus succeeds in combining different perspectives
and beliefs about narratives of war in the Israeli context. The
voices that speak are heterogeneous, the time period defines the
discussion in optimal fashion, and the narratives of dissent are
explained and exemplified in diverse and thought-provoking
ways.--Tal Dekel "Israel Studies Review"
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