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Issues Of Sexuality, Censorship, And Self-censorship In The Formation Of National And Cultural Identities Are A Focus Of Great Interest In Contemporary Literary Research. This Is The First Work Of Its Kind To Study These Combined Issues In The Context Of Translated And Original Hebrew Literature. Puritan Norms In The Area Of Literary Representation Of Sex And Erotica Formed In Pre-state Israel, Against The Contradictory Background Of Western Puritan Laws And Norms And Socialist Liberal Trends, Were Basically A Result Of Power Over The Prevalence Of Zionist Ideology And The Formation Of An Elitist Youth, Nicknamed The Sabra. For Several Decades, A Relatively Small Group Of Culture Shapers Dictated An Image Of Sabra Puritanism, Which Literature, Original And Translated, Sought To Reflect And Express. More By Self-censorship Than By Any Obscenity Law Enforcement, The Literary Mainstream Prohibited Banned Books And Cleansed Its Repertory Of Explicit Erotica. In So Doing, It Pushed Literature About Sex Or Sexuality To The Margins, To Flourish In The Form Of Pulp Fiction Or Pseudo-medical Sex Handbooks. The Puritan Expurgating Trend, Enhanced By Old-fashioned Elevated Stylistic Norms, Ha

Author

Nitsa Ben-Ari; Ben-Ari Nista

Publisher

University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780776616971

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities