ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the evolution of security narrative and also focuses on voices of dissent that sought from an early stage in Israel's history to challenge the hegemony of what is termed "the Security Style" in the nation's literary canon. Israeli literature can be read as a security narrative telling the story of Jewish power, its attainment and consolidation. During the course of that journey, Hebrew literary culture became preoccupied with the search for power and the fashioning of a protagonist capable of both bearing arms and sustaining a security narrative. The earliest Israeli security narratives were engrained in a culture that actively mobilized the cream of its youth for war had to rely for recruitment on persuasion and the promise of social capital. David Grossman a prolific author and novelist who ever since the early 1980s has addressed several major aspects of Israeli life, had throughout engaged the Security Style as both an insider and an objective critic.
