Papers by Yiftach Ashkenazi
World Literature Today, 2021
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Postcolonial Animalities
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world literature today , 2021
An Introduction to Hebrew Lit: Congruency, Clash, and Collision
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Postcolonial Animality, 2020
This chapter offers a comparative reading of two texts: Only Yesterday, the 1945 novel by Nobel P... more This chapter offers a comparative reading of two texts: Only Yesterday, the 1945 novel by Nobel Prize laureate S.Y. Agnon, and the 2008 Oscar-nominated animated documentary Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman. In each of these texts, dogs have a dual presence, as both a real and a haunting syllepsis. To contextualize the significance of these representations, we will survey appearances of dogs in other post/colonial representations. We claim that in Israeli culture, the dog has a recurring role as an intersection between Jewish and Zionist histories, the holocaust and colonialism, and private and collective traumas.
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CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2019
Anton Shammas’s 1986 novel Arabesques has been the subject of much literary criticism and on-goin... more Anton Shammas’s 1986 novel Arabesques has been the subject of much literary criticism and on-going discussions in Hebrew literature circles. This article argues that existing interpretations of this work share a fundamental similarity to the extent that they assume Arabesques to be a novel whose primary aim is to depict a certain kind of subject, in accordance with the complicated emplacement of Shammas as a Palestinian writing in Hebrew. Against such interpretations, we suggest that Arabesques is better understood as a text that resists the process of subject formation as linked to Althusser’s notion of ideology. Instead, Shammas explores the possibilities inherent in fictionality itself. Fiction, in our reading, is an alternative practice that opens up new possibilities for identity formations and for political criticism which are tied neither to ideology nor to the Althusserian interpellated subject. While departing from previous readings of the novel, these claims nevertheless stand in a line of descent with their predecessors.
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מכאן , 2018
״ה״הכי יפה״: הבחירה האסתטית של קול צעדינו כביטוי למפגש שבין מערכת הספרות בישראל של שנת 2008 לנקוד... more ״ה״הכי יפה״: הבחירה האסתטית של קול צעדינו כביטוי למפגש שבין מערכת הספרות בישראל של שנת 2008 לנקודת המבט של המחברת״, מכאן יח (זאת עם הפנים אלינו-על יצירתה של רונית מטלון), 2018, ע״מ: 155-194, מכון הקשרים והמחלקה לספרות עברית אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, אוניברסיטת קיימברידג׳ ודביר
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Book Reviews by Yiftach Ashkenazi
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ידיעות אחרונות , 2021
כתבה על מצב שוק הספרים והשפעת השוק על הספרות העכשווית
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Tel Aviv Review of Books , 2021
The Irish novelist's decision not to publish her latest novel with an Israeli publisher reveals h... more The Irish novelist's decision not to publish her latest novel with an Israeli publisher reveals her fundamental ignorance about the actual relationship between Israeli literature, the Israeli establishment, and the Occupation. Join TARB+ Reading about Sally Rooney's decision not to publish her latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You?, with an Israeli publisher, I was reminded of something that happened to me a few years ago. I was sitting with a few friends in the Sira Pub in Jerusalem when a swarm of Birthright participants invaded the venue, and began to instruct everyone on how to behave. They told the barman how to pull a pint, the DJ what music to play. One told me that, as a man, I was only allowed to use the urinal and not the toilet. It was sad, this lack of understanding from a group of young people who had come from the West to explain things to us. The barman already knew how to pull the perfect pint, and the DJ continued playing the weird music that the pub is famous for. As for the urinal I had been dispatched to: it was, in fact, a flower pot.
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Tel Aviv Review of Books , 2018
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Conference Presentations by Yiftach Ashkenazi
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University of Cambridge & Heksherim Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Cul... more University of Cambridge & Heksherim Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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