| Description |
1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Carpenter Lectures |
| Contents |
Proust among the nations -- Partition, Proust, and Palestine -- The house of memory -- Endgame: Beckett and Genet in the Middle East |
| Summary |
Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In Proust among the Nations, she takes the development of her thought on this crisis a stage further, revealing it as a distinctly Western problem. In a radical rereading of the Dreyfus affair through the lens of Marcel Proust in dialogue with Freud, Rose offers a fresh and nuanced account of the rise of Jewish nationalism and the subsequent creation of Israel. Following Proust's heirs, Beckett and Genet, and a host of Middle Eastern writers, artists, and filmmakers, Rose traces the shifting dynamic of memory and identity across the crucial and ongoing cultural links between Europe and Palestine. A powerful and elegant analysis of the responsibility of writing, Proust among the Nations makes the case for literature as a unique resource for understanding political struggle and gives us new ways to think creatively about the violence in the Middle East |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
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Genet, Jean, 1910-1986.
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
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Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935 fast |
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Genet, Jean, 1910-1986 fast |
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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 fast |
| Subject |
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Literature and the conflict.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Arab-Israeli conflict -- Literature and the conflict
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226725802 |
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0226725804 |
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128331116X |
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9781283311168 |
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9786613311160 |
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6613311162 |
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