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Be’er-Sheva in Shulamit Lapid’s Lizzie Badiḥi Series

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Be’er-Sheva the capital of the Negev; Be’er Sheva as periphery; Imagined and concrete Be’er-Sheva; Be’er-Sheva as a ‘third space’

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Shulamit Lapid’s Lizzie Badihi detective series are taking place in Be’er-Sheva, the capital of the Negev area. The series can be divided into two parts: the first three novels regard the last years of the twentieth century and the last three reflect the beginning of the twenty-first century. The novels represent the economic, demographic, and even physical changes taking place in Be’er-Sheva, changes that reflect the changes in the Israeli society at the time.

Introduction

Alongside Batya Gur, the Israeli writer Shulamit Lapid (b. 1934) was largely responsible for the new generation of Israeli detective and mystery fiction that developed in the late 1980s. When Lapid and Gur began publishing their first detective novels – in 1988 and 1989, respectively – they moved away from the “classic mysteries,” using the traditional crime form, to...

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  1. Comparative Literature Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

    Anat Koplowitz-Breier

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Koplowitz-Breier, A. (2019). Be’er-Sheva in Shulamit Lapid’s Lizzie Badiḥi Series. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_118-1

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