The Poetics of Marginality in Israel: Ars Poetika and the Russophone Poets of the 1.5 Generation.
The article examines contemporary Israeli poetry by post-Soviet Jews who migrated to Israel after the collapse of the USSR. Complicating the dominant assessment of post-Soviet literature in Israel as an isolated and “ghettoized” phenomenon, an analysis of the poetry by Soviet-born, Hebrew-language p...
| Publicado en: | Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 175 - 200 |
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| Formato: | Poetry Review |
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Purdue University Press
Spring2024
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