The Dynamics of Grieving in Contemporary Israeli Society and its Echoes in David Grossman's Literature

Authors

  • Karla Louise de Ameida Petel Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-8051.cllh.2016.125028

Keywords:

bereavement dynamics, Israeli society, contemporary literature of Israel, David Grossman.

Abstract

This article aims to reflect about the dynamics of grieving that exhists in contemporary Israeli society and at which historical moments/events it is possible to find its origin. This research also seeks to analyze the blatant maintenance of the pain and of the trauma as individual and collective experience in Israel, reinforced by the State through numerous dates and memorialistic rituals, which end up reaching national proportions. Consolidated as a true social construction, the bereavement thus becomes part of the hard everyday reality of the country and resonates in various artistic expressions of society, especially the literature. Finally, this work also is dedicated to an analytical and interpretative reading of two texts by Israeli contemporary author David Grossman – To the End of the Land (2011) and Falling Out of Time (2012) – which contains very significant echoes of the death and the grieving, typical themes in Israeli society.

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Author Biography

  • Karla Louise de Ameida Petel, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    Doutoranda em Estudos Judaicos pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Judaicos e Árabes da Universidade de São Paulo e Professora do Departamento de Língua e Literatura Hebraicas da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Published

2016-12-26

Issue

Section

HEBREW AND JEWISH LITERATURE

How to Cite

Petel, K. L. de A. (2016). The Dynamics of Grieving in Contemporary Israeli Society and its Echoes in David Grossman’s Literature. Cadernos De Língua E Literatura Hebraica, 14, 11-34. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-8051.cllh.2016.125028