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In Spoiling the Stories, Tamar Merin presents the as yet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expanding the gendered models of literary influence in modern Hebrew literature. The theoretical idea upon which this book is based is that of intersexual dialogue, a term that refers to the various literary strategies employed by Israeli female fiction writers expressing their voice within a male-dominated and (still) inherently Oedipal literary tradition. Spoiling the Stories focuses on intersexual dialogue as it evolved in the first three decades after the establishment of the state of Israel in the works of Yehudit Hendel, Amalia Kahana- Carmon, and Rachel Eytan. According to Merin, these three women writers were the most important in the history of modern Hebrew literature: each was a significant participant in the poetic development of her time.

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Merin accomplishes an important task: centralizing an unjustifiably marginalized body of literature whose unique value can now be understood. The subject matter is so interesting, so novel, and so paradigmatic that there is no doubt it will prove a valuable contribution to the fields of Women's Studies and Israeli Literary Studies. This work is also a potentially useful tool for the understanding of Israeli culture in the 20th century, and the development of inter-sexuality in a society which was based on an invented masculine definition of the Jewish male. --Karen Alkalay-Gut, Professor, Tel Aviv University and Founder of the Israel Association of Writers in English ...Merin has done much to advance the field, offering a nuanced theoretical approach as well as subtle close readings that refresh rather than spoil our appreciation of Israeli women's writing. --NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues

Merin accomplishes an important task: centralizing an unjustifiably marginalized body of literature whose unique value can now be understood. The subject matter is so interesting, so novel, and so paradigmatic that there is no doubt it will prove a valuable contribution to the fields of Women's Studies and Israeli Literary Studies. This work is also a potentially useful tool for the understanding of Israeli culture in the 20th century, and the development of inter-sexuality in a society which was based on an invented masculine definition of the Jewish male. --Karen Alkalay-Gut, Professor, Tel Aviv University and Founder of the Israel Association of Writers in English .. .Merin has done much to advance the field, offering a nuanced theoretical approach as well as subtle close readings that refresh rather than spoil our appreciation of Israeli women's writing. --NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues

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Tamar Merin is a postdoctoral fellow teaching in the English Department and the Department of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, USA.

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