Conclusion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Hebrew Symbolist Poetry During World War II
6. 1. “The Real Has Become a Symbol” 11
7. 2. The Dispute over War Poetry 17
8. 3. Criticism of Nationalist Violence 22
9. 4. Reading Nationalist Poetry Critically 26
10. 5. Nationalism Anthologized 32
11. 6. The Living-Dead in Joy of the Poor 37
12. 7. Revenge on a Nationalist Scale 44
13. 8. Leah Goldberg Writes War Poetry 48
14. 9. The Duality of the Symbolist Woman Poet 54
15. 10. The Living-Dead and the Female Body 58
16. 11. Amir Gilboa: Boy Poet 62
17. Part II Historical Analogy and National Allegory During the Holocaust
18. 12. A Surprising Moral Judgment 75
19. 13. The Uncommon Stance of a Major Poet 78
20. 14. Critical Reception 81
21. 15. A Postnationalist Reading 86
22. 16. A Symbol, Not an Allegory 92
23. 17. Allegory in The Poems of the Plagues of Egypt Versus Symbolism in Joy of the Poor 97
24. 18. Allegory as a Nonhegemonic Stance 103
25. 19. Alterman and the Memory of the Holocaust 110
26. 20. The Father-Son Strategy 114
27. 21. Blind Vengeance 119
28. 22. Breaking the Cycle of Crime and Punishment 123
29. 23. History of the Defeated 134
30. 24. A Summer Quarrel 138
31. 25. Ghetto Poems in the Streets of Tel-Aviv 146
32. Part III Symbols of Death in the National War for Independence
33. 26. Return of the Hegemonic Symbol 163
34. 27. The Living-Dead in the Independence War 175
35. 28. Amir Gilboa and the Subversion of the Symbol 178
36. 29. Gilboa Versus the Metaphor of the Living-Dead 188
37. 30. Poets as Reporters 193
38. 31. Sorrow Petrified into Symbols 200
39. 32. Hegemonic Strategies 207
40. 33. From Reportage to Lyric 215
41. 34. Women Write of Fallen Soldiers as Flesh and Blood 222
42. 35. In the Service of National Subjectivity 225
43. 36. Women and the Metaphor of the Living-Dead 229
44. 37. Criticism of the Living-Dead Metaphor 236
45. 38. The Authority and Power of Women 243
46. 39. Popular Versus Canonical Mourning 251
47. 40. The Secrets and Power of Women 253
48. Conclusion 259
49. Index 261