| Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East Contributor(s): Rose, Jacqueline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226725782 ISBN-13: 9780226725789 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $48.51 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: 843.912 |
| LCCN: 2011019002 |
| Series: Carpenter Lectures |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.88 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rose, Jacqueline: - Jacqueline Rose is professor English at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of many books, including The Last Resistance, The Question of Zion, and Albertine: A Novel. |