Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction- Intersexual Dialogue
- Modern Hebrew Literature and the Bonds of Oedipus
- Towards a Feminist Historiography of Hebrew Prose Fiction
- Intersexual Dialogue in Israeli Women’s Prose Fiction
Chapter OneOn the Absent Pen: Intersexual Dialogue as Melancholia in Yehudit Hendel’s Prose of the 1950s- Yehudit Hendel and the 1948 Generation
- Hendel’s “melancholic” intersexual Dialogue with Agnon
- The Fake Sabra: the Young Hendel Rewrites “The Doctor’s Divorce”
- Agnon as an imaginary father
- The return of the repressed past
- Cracking the Mirror: Intersexual Dialogue as Melancholia in Re’hovha-madregot
- Cracking Lacan’s mirror
- In the wake of the absent mother
- Aginut as melancholia
- Cracking the realist mirror of the 1948 Generation
5. Getting Through the Dead Day with the Living Man
Chapter Two The Secret that Makes a Hero of the Weak: Imaginary Fathers and Cross-Gender Identification in Amalia Kahana-Carmon’s Early Prose 1. Kahana-Carmon and the “New Wave”
2. Beyond the female Oedipus: intersexuality as cross-gender identification
3. “Ne’ima Sasson Kotevet Shirim”: Towards a Female Künstlerroman
* Ne’ima Sasson Writes Poems
* Ezekiel revealed
* “Ne’ima Sasson Kotevet Shirim” in dialogue with “In the Prime of Her Life”
* The secret that makes a hero of the weak
* Ne’ima Sasson writes prose
4. My Husband Was Revived at Night: Intersexual Dialogue in “Lev ha-kaits lev ha-or”
- Ronen the Old Child
- My husband was revived at night
5. To a cross gender ars poetica
Chapter ThreeSpoiling the Stories: Rachel Eytan Revisits the Hebrew Künstlerroman 1. Where Has Rachel Eytan Disappeared To?
2.
The Fifth Heaven: Towards a Subversive Künstlerroman
* Always spoiling the stories
3.
Shida veshidot: The Hebrew Künstlerroman Revisited
* Eros or writing?
* Literary anti-initiation in
“Ha-tzida
” * ‘Sendril the Housewife’ as a famous writer: Fogel’s
Married Life 4. Rachel Eytan Returns
Epilogue The Past that Cries Out for Change:New Directions in Intersexual Dialogue
