Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Note on Translation and Transliteration......Page 12
Introduction: Gothic Matters......Page 16
Part 1. A Spectralized Past......Page 50
1. Always Already Gothic: S. Y. Agnon’s European Tales of Terror......Page 52
2. Maternal Macabre: Feminine Subjectivity at the Edge of the Shtetl in Dvora Baron and Ya’akov Shteinberg......Page 89
3. After the Nightmare of the Holocaust: Gothic Temporalities in Leah Goldberg and Edgar Allan Poe......Page 128
Part 2. Haunted Nation......Page 160
4. Dark Jerusalem: Amos Oz’s Anxious Literary Cartography between 1948 and 1967......Page 162
5. Historiographic Perversions: Echoes of Otranto in A. B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani......Page 202
6. A Séance for the Self: Memory, Nonmemory, and the Reorientation of History in Almog Behar and Toni Morrison......Page 238
Coda : “Here Are Our Monsters”Hebrew Horror from the Political to Pop......Page 275
Bibliography......Page 292
Index......Page 312
About the Author......Page 328