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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The city's motto "I will build you and you will be rebuilt," from Jeremiah (31:4) is confronted and even challenged in literary depictions of Tel-Aviv. The mythology prevalent in the city's creation narrative is shattered through the use of urban tropes, such as the street, prostitution, urban sprawl, and the protagonist's isolation, and even eventual suicide, in fictional texts from the 1970s onwards. This article examines texts by Ya'akov Shabtai, Binyamin Tammuz, Yehudit Katzir, and Etgar Keret in which Tel-Aviv, in failing the unique ideology of the first Jewish city, becomes the genuine urban experience for which it was intended-a city like any other.
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