TY  - GEN
T1  - Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture
T2  - Edinburgh scholarship online.
A1  - Hesse, Isabelle
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1428233853
AB  - Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987Develops relationality as a critical tool to challenge mainstream ideas about Israeli and Palestinian narratives as separate and not connected to European histories of the Holocaust and colonialismArgues that Israel and Palestine are used as geopolitical and imaginary spaces to discuss social and political concerns in the United Kingdom and in GermanyExamines works by authors and directors from outside of Israel and Palestine, including those with no direct link to the conflict, thus extending our understanding of Palestine and Israel as signifiers in the contemporary periodOffers a comparative analysis of British and German literature, TV drama, and film which focuses on country-specific case studies to identify common trends in imagining and reimaging Israel and Palestine since the first Palestinian IntifadaDiscusses works published since 1987 which depict encounters between (Israeli) Jews and Palestinians since 1947 which depict encounters between (Israeli) Jews and Palestinians and their narratives since 1947Isabelle Hesse identifies an important relational turn in British and German literature, TV drama, and film published and produced since the First Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993). This turn manifests itself on two levels: one, in representing Israeli and Palestinian histories and narratives as connected rather than separate, and two, by emphasising the links between the current situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the roles that the United Kingdom and Germany have played historically, and continue to play, in the region. This relational turn constitutes a significant shift in representations of Israel and Palestine in British and German culture as these depictions move beyond an engagement with the Holocaust and Jewish suffering at the expense of Palestinian suffering and indicate a willingness to represent and acknowledge British and German involvement in Israeli and Palestinian politics. This book offers new ways of thinking about how Israel and Palestine are imagined and reimagined as topics of cultural and political interest in two countries that have had complicated histories with both Israel and Palestine, histories which are marked by each country's memories of the Holocaust and colonialism.
OP  - 216
CN  - DS119.7 .H47 2024
SN  - 9781399523691
SN  - 1399523694
SN  - 9781399523677
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict : Literature and the conflict.
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict : Motion pictures and the conflict.
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict : Television and the conflict.
KW  - Popular culture : Germany.
KW  - Popular culture : Great Britain.
KW  - Islamic Studies.
KW  - Conflit israélo-arabe : Littérature et conflit.
KW  - Culture populaire : Allemagne.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Jewish.
KW  - Asian history.
KW  - History.
ER  -