@article{351234, note = {Translated from Hebrew.}, author = {Castel-Bloom, Orly, and Bilu, Dalya.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351234}, title = {Dolly City /}, publisher = {Dalkey Archive Press,}, abstract = {"The accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black pastic bag, and decides to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto her son. Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the all-too-familiar Jewish mother archetype, forever operating upon her son with destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the defensive measures taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom ... turns her own scalpel upon that most holy of instititions, the myth of motherhood--and its implications in the life of a nation"--From publisher description.}, recid = {351234}, pages = {167 p. ;}, address = {Champaign [Ill.] :}, year = {2010}, }