Proust among the nations : from Dreyfus to the Middle East / Jacqueline Rose.

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Rose, Jacqueline

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Carpenter LecturesPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226725802
0226725804
128331116X
9781283311168
9786613311160
6613311162

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Proust among the nations.DDC classification:

843/.912 23

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PQ2631.R63 Z83645 2011eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Proust among the nations -- Partition, Proust, and Palestine -- The house of memory -- Endgame: Beckett and Genet in the Middle East.

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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.

English.

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