Kniha Disenthralling Ourselves Nita Schechet

Disenthralling Ourselves

Rhetoric of Revenge and Reconciliation in Contemporary Israel

Autor: Nita Schechet
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: 50 % šance
Prohledáme celý svět
2 591
Disenthralling Ourselves portrays contemporary Israel in a process of transition. Jewish-Israeli and...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2009
Stránek
163
EAN
9781611474107
ISBN
1611474108
Enbook ID
05091736
Hmotnost
381
Rozměry
164 x 244 x 15

Kompletní popis

Disenthralling Ourselves portrays contemporary Israel in a process of transition. Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli communities share a nation-state divided by the separate truths of its conflicting fundamental narratives. This book considers ways of converting those separate and antagonistic narratives from fuel for conflict to seeds of change. Its purpose is to undo the convenient coherence of collective memory and master narratives through fostering a capacious moral imagination able to apprehend diverse, even contentious, stories and truths. Contemporary Israel functions as a case study in an in-depth and interdisciplinary exploration of conflict resolution, viewing Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli documentary film, poetry, fiction, essays, memoir, peace initiatives, and other elements of collective narrative-building through a prism of three analogously themed Shakespearean plays. This comparative methodology is integrated with theoretical perspectives on reconciliation, resilience, critical reflection, and peace education in presenting concrete alternatives to the convenient comforts of the inimical master narratives that perpetuate what can now be seen as a hundred-year war. The readings offered in this book generate perspectives that can be adopted and adapted in relation to each other in the process of moving from a single static narrative of incessant warfare. The first section, 'Seeing in the Dark,' considers rhetoric and identity formation of cultures in transition. Its first half focuses on revenge cultures and reads Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Juliano Mer Khamis's documentary 'Arna's Children' in a fictive and documentary pairing of people stripped of all but revenge. Its second half considers rhetoric and Israeli identities in transition through the prism of Hamlet. Three genre-challenging authors represent Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli narrative identity formation; Yaron Ezrahi, Emile Habiby,and Anton Shammas reflect a hybridity that emphasi

Mohlo by vás zajímat

704

Georgian

Towle Mfg Company
369

Boy Soldiers

Helene Munson
466

Murder

Arthur Conan Doyle
146

Wooden Plane

John M. Whalen
689
697
192
1 407
4 006
3 426
3 096
859
803

Oncogenomics

Charles Brenner
3 338
1 383

Zákaznicí kteří koupili tuto knihu koupili také

Metodologia de planejamento

Fernanda Gomes de Andrade
984

Ranphule

V. S. Khandekar
348
315

Słońce w kieszeni

Joanna M.Chmielewska
229