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Journal Article
A Mediterranean Mayflower? Introducing Ronit Matalon
2010
Overview
Matalon's stories deal with the core problems of Israeli culture-such as the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and inner-colonialism in Ashkenazi-Mizrahi power relations-and simultaneously with universal issues such as love, friendship, family relations, domestic violence, moral responsibility, and the scope of art. The capacity or incapacity to speak out about sexual violence prescribes the characters' identities (In Bliss, Ofri has her mouth stuffed with earth and weeds; when as an adult she brings the subject up with Sarah, Sarah stops the conversation by stating that it doesn't matter; in Galu et paneha the deserting lover touches the narrator's legs under her skirt as he silences her and tries to coax her to leave without burning his house down). [...]it is. The repetition of images, such as the formative image of the roofless kitchen under renovation that appears in Ze im ha-panim eleinu, and is granted an illuminating reading in Tsal's article, or the refigured scene of the father's shocked and pained response to Egypt's loss in the Six Day War in conflict with the mother's Zionist response in both novels, attests to Matalon's dynamics of repetition and revision that enable the continuous flow of destructive and constructive views of the endlessly intricate terrain before her.
