Acknowledgments
Introduction: Periodizing Israeli Literature
1. Prehistory: Zionist Hebrew Literary Realism, between Altneuland and Khirbet Khizeh
2. From Utopian Project to Utopian Compensation in 1950s Works by Yigal Mossinsohn and Nathan Shaham
3. Then as Farce: Naturalism and Disavowed Failure in 1950s Hebrew Novels by Hanoch Bartov and Yehudit Hendel
4. Is There Israeli Postmodern Literature? Orly Castel-Bloom, Yehudit Katzir, and the Vicissitudes of National Space-Time in the 1980s and 1990s
5. Disorientation and the Genres: David Grossman, Yehoshua Kenaz, and Batya Gur
6. Time in Hiding: Israeli Fiction and Neoliberalism
7. In Search of New Time: Renarrating Soldier, Pioneer, and the Tel Aviv Subject-to-Come
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Oded Nir is Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.