The men we loved : male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture / Danny Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Danny, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Israel--Psychology.

Men.

Male friendship--Israel.

Male friendship.

Nationalism--Israel.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Other Title:

Male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2006.

Summary:

Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet whereas in most instances this desire is displaced through humor and aggressive gestures, it becomes acknowledged and outright declared once associated with sites of heroic death. In his provocative study of interrelations between friendship in everyday life and national sentiments in Israel, the author follows selected stories of friendship ranging over early childhood, school, the workplace, and some unique war experiences. He explores the symbolism of friendship in rituals for the fallen soldiers, the commemoration of Prime Minister Yzhak Rabin, and the national infatuation with recovering bodies of missing soldiers. He concludes that the Israeli case offers an extreme instance of a much broader cultural phenomenon: declaring the friendship for the dead epitomizes the political “blood pact” between men, taking precedence over the traditional blood ties of kinship and heterosexual unions. The book underscores nationalism as a homosocial-based emotion of commemorative desire.

Contents:

The Men We Loved; CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; Part I. FRIENDSHIP AND IDEOLOGY; Chapter One. THE CASE OF FRATERNAL FRIENDSHIP; Chapter Two. RE'UT: FRIENDSHIP IN ZIONIST IDEOLOGY; Part II. FRIENDSHIP IN EVERYDAY LIFE; Chapter Three. HISTORY AND DESTINY: FRIENDSHIP NARRATIVES; Chapter Four. Two Styles of Sharing: The HEVREMAN and the Intellectual; Chapter Five. PUBLIC INTIMACY AND THE MISCOMMUNICATION OF DESIRE; Part III. SACRED FRIENDSHIP; Chapter Six. DAVID, JONATHAN, AND OTHER SOLDIERS: THE HEGEMONIC SCRIPT FOR MALE BONDING; Chapter Seven. "SHALOM, HAVER": COMMEMORATION AS DESIRE

DISCUSSION: NATIONALISM, FRIENDSHIP AND COMMEMORATIVE DESIREAppendix 1; Appendix 2; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781845451929

1845451929

9781845451936

1845451937

9781782389378

1782389377

OCLC:

961893549