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Israeli Speculative Fiction

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Beyond Is/real

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvElana Gomel,Elana Gomel,Vered Weiss

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This collection of essays investigates both the elements that locate Israeli speculative fiction in relation to world speculative literature, and the features that render it unique. For decades, Israeli literary culture seemed to focus almost entirely on realistic genres; however, a closer examination reveals not only the prevalence of speculative literature in the country, but also its significance in shaping both enduring and emerging ideas about Israeli identities. Recognizing the significance of speculative literature in the reconfiguration of modern Israeli identities will expand and deepen conversations about the wider Israeli culture.The book contains essays about temporality and spatiality, and explorations of work by seminal authors such as Etgar Keret and Orly Castel-Bloom, as well as Assaf Gavron, Shimon Adaf, Ishay Sarid, and Lavie Tidhar. It also includes unique perspectives on Palestinian Israeli speculative fiction and Israeli comics.This volume invites readers to enter conversations about Israeli culture that go beyond discourses about what is real, and encounter, instead, discussions about how Israelis use speculative fiction to imagine what might be.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-13
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Antal sidor277
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781805966821

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Elana Gomel is an Associate Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University and an award-winning fiction writer with numerous short stories, novellas and five novels. Vered Weiss is Assistant Professor at The Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities, and is core faculty member of The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel at Michigan State University.

IntroductionVered Weiss and Elana GomelPart 1. General – TheoryLimbotopia: The “New Present” and the Literary ImaginationElana Gomel and Vered Karti ShemtovWhat is “Israeli” about Israeli Speculative Fiction?Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel LottemScience Fiction and Fantasy in Israeli LiteratureLynn LevanonHaunting Homelands: Displacement and Resistance in Palestinian Speculative Fiction and Osama Al-Muslim’s Orchids of ArabistanNardeen DowMauvaises-lettres: The New Historical Imagination in Israeli Speculative FictionOded NirHebrew Speculative Fiction in English TranslationRachel CordascoPart 2. Specific ExamplesBialik and the Gothic: The Hebrew National Poet of Decline and ResurrectionVered WeissDust Soaked: Water and Mutual Obligation in Assaf Gavron’s SFKeren Omry“What is Yet to Come Already Slashes the Air”: Temporal Space in Shimon Adaf’s Rose of Judea TrilogyRina Jean Baroukh“Reaching into the clear blue of the Mediterranean Sea”: Lavie Tidhar’s Israeli Speculative FictionsHadas Elber-AviramThe Redemption Compulsion: Utopian Messianism and Trauma in the Dystopian Novel The ThirdYossi MendelovichA Mischievous Child, a War Hero, and a Friendly Spy: The Ideological Transfiguration of the Sabra in Hebrew Comics from 1935 to 1974Ben Baruch Blich