The Israeli memory struggle : history and identity in the age of globalization / Jakob Feldt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldt, Jakob.

Series:

University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences 0078-3307 ; v. 340 i.e. 343.

University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences, 0078-3307 ; v. 340 [i.e. 343]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and history.

Israeli literature.

Post-Zionism.

History.

Zionism.

Historiography.

Israel--Historiography.

Israel.

Historiography--Israel--History--20th century.

Jews--Israel--Identity.

Jews.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Zionism--Israel--History--20th century.

Post-Zionism--History--20th century.

Israeli literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Television and history--Israel.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark ; Portland, OR : distribution in the United States and Canada [by] International Specialized Book Services, [2007]

Summary:

The Israeli Memory Struggle' analyses changes of Israeli imaginations of history and identity through the 1990s. This particular decade of Israeli history was characterized by significant cultural clashes and vigorous debates over Jewish-Israeli history, identity, literature and not the least the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. The book provides thought provoking perspectives on issues related to the so-called post-Zionism debates and the globalization of Israeli society through the 1990s. It critically investigates the new Israeli historians, prominent authors of the 1990s, diasporic philosophy and Israel's 50th anniversary in 1998 in the shape of TV documentary, Tekumah. Finally, the book discusses new tendencies in Israeli culture production that are suggestive to Jewish-Israeli identity in the age of globalization. Located within the field of Cultural Studies, the book is highly theoretically engaged. It integrates the perspectives of cultural studies and post-colonial studies with a literary approach to historiography inspired by Haden White and Richard Rorty. In the perspective of this book, histories are seen to working social institutions that set the parameters of what is real and common sense, on the one hand, and what is ideological and radical on the other. The book presents detailed theoretical investigations of the historical imagination as a social fact in an Israeli context.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228)

ISBN:

9788776742188

8776742180

OCLC:

143619360