Borders, territories, and ethics : Hebrew literature in the shadow of the Intifada / Adia Mendelson-Maoz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendelson-Maoz, Adia, author.

Series:

Shofar supplements in Jewish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew literature--Israel--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature.

Israeli literature--History and criticism.

Israeli literature.

Intifada, 1987-1993.

Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005.

Social conditions.

Israel--Social conditions.

Israel.

West Bank--Social conditions.

West Bank.

Gaza Strip--Social conditions.

Gaza Strip.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 242 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the multifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics manifested in contemporary Hebrew literature dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the occupation. In this volume, Mendelson-Maoz analyzes Israeli prose written between 1987 and 2007, relating mainly to the first and second intifadas, written by well-known authors such as Yehoshua, Grossman, Matalon, Castel-Bloom, Govrin, Kravitz, and Levy. Mendelson-Maoz raises critical questions regarding militarism, humanism, the nature of the State of Israel as a democracy, national identity and its borders, soldiers as moral individuals, the nature of Zionist education, the acknowledgment of the Other, and the sovereignty of the subject. She discusses these issues within two frameworks. The first draws on theories of ethics in the humanist tradition and its critical extensions, especially by Levinas. The second applies theories of space, and in particular deterritorialization as put forward by Deleuze and Guattari and their successors. Overall this volume provides an innovative theoretical analysis of the collage of voices and artistic directions in contemporary Israeli prose written in times of political and cultural debate on the occupation and its intifadas."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 In the Heart of Darkness p. 1

Chapter 1 On a Hot Tin Roof p. 5

On Distancing p. 7

On the Roof p. 9

Intimacy-Down from the Roof p. 16

Animalism p. 21

Chapter 2 No Luck p. 27

Shooting and Crying p. 30

Moral Luck p. 33

Circumstantial Moral Luck p. 34

Constitutive Moral Luck p. 39

Chapter 3 The Third Eye p. 45

A Palestinian Legend p. 50

The State of Exception p. 57

From Stereotype to Grotesque p. 58

The Smile of the Lamb and Abjection p. 61

The Living Dead in The Intifada Tales p. 64

Human Organs in Letters of the Sun, Letters of the Moon p. 67

On Storytelling p. 72

Part 2 Does Literature Matter? p. 75

Chapter 4 A. B. Yehoshua and the Moderation on the Left at the Turn of the Millennium p. 79

Fathers, Sons, and the Myth of the Akeda in Yehoshua's Works p. 80

Two Kinds of Sacrifice p. 87

On Winds and Responsibility p. 94

The Larger Picture p. 96

Chapter 5 Orly Castel-Bloom between the Two Intifadas p. 101

Dolly's World p. 102

The Mother and the Map p. 103

Illness p. 111

From the Anatomy of the Body to the Anatomy of Death p. 112

From Dolly City to Human Parts p. 117

Castel-Bloom's Moral Compass p. 118

Chapter 6 Terrorism and the Face of the Dead Other p. 121

On Levinas and Otherness p. 122

The Encounter p. 124

The Face of the Other p. 128

The Responsibility to the Other Who Is Dead p. 133

A Call for a Different Ethics p. 140

Chapter 7 Dismantling Borders: A Female Perspective p. 145

The Rhizomatic Space p. 147

Nomadic Art p. 157

Deterritorialization and Femaleness p. 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 205-231) and index.

ISBN:

9781557538208

1557538204

9781612495354

1612495354

9781612495361

1612495362

OCLC:

1000581101