With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy and Israeli Culture (Israel: Society, Culture, and History): Fantasy in Israeli Literature

by Danielle Gurevitch (Author), Elana Gomel (Contributor), Rani Graff (Contributor)

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  Illustrated
  2012

  $91.24

  Originally published in Hebrew in 2009, this is the first serious, wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated exploration of fantasy in Israeli literature and culture. Its contributors jointly attempt to contest the question posed at the beginning: why do Israelis, living in a country whose very existence is predicated on the fulfilment of a utopian dream, distrust fantasy?