Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine
Normalizing Stress
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 2024
224 pages
979-8-216-33836-9 (ISBN)
Description
Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine: Normalizing Stress exposes the ways Israeli "emergency routine" leads to perpetual stress and trauma and explores how these conditions are overwhelmingly present in the cultural production of Israeli art and literature. The nine chapters engage with a variety of Israeli cultural artifacts, including poetry, prose, film, and graphic novels, and cast a wide temporal net, reaching from as early as the 1960s to 2019. In doing so, this collection sheds light upon the ramifications of the constant stress of the Israeli emergency routine on academic and cultural discourses and alerts readers to the effects of the physical world on the formulation of world views within social and political realities.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 BW Photos
ISBN-13
979-8-216-33836-9 (9798216338369)
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Persons
Vered Weiss is the Serling Israeli Visiting Scholar and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel at Michigan State University.
Avner Dinur is lecturer of Jewish studies at Sapir College.
Irit Ronen is PhD candidate at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a teaching fellow at the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies at Sapir Academic College.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Introduction: Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine
Irit Ronen, Avner Dinur, Vered Weiss
Chapter 1. The State of Emergency and the Ethos: The Poetry of Aharon Shabtai
Irit Ronen
Chapter 2. Monstrous Memory: Memory and Marginality in To the End of the Land by David
Grossman and Jorge Luis Borges' "Funes el Memorioso"
Vered Weiss
Chapter 3. Stress, Repression, and Humor in Israeli Comics: The Cases of Rutu Modan and
Gilad Seliktar
Ilaria Stiller
Chapter 4. Rockets, Turtles, and the Political Abyss: Hebrew Literature from the Gaza Envelope
Osnat Lemko
Chapter 5. Facing the Chaos: Contemporary Israeli Literature (Re)Acting to Uncertain Times
Omri Herzog and Nurith Gertz
Chapter 6. "I've never seen the world be so cruel" Performances of Mizrahi masculinity under a
state of emergency in Sderot: A sociological-gender analysis of the film Hula and Natan
Moti Gigi and Haim (Hai) Bitton
Chapter 7. The State of Israel Is Disintegrating. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Conclusion of the
Film On the Hilltop Youth, Religious Zionism, and Israeli Literature
Yael Shenker
Chapter 8. A Stressful Identity: Jews, Other Nations, and Other Religions
Avner Dinur
Conclusion: Essays from Sapir, a College under Attack
Avner Dinur, Irit Ronen, Vered Weiss
About the Contributors
Introduction: Introduction: Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine
Irit Ronen, Avner Dinur, Vered Weiss
Chapter 1. The State of Emergency and the Ethos: The Poetry of Aharon Shabtai
Irit Ronen
Chapter 2. Monstrous Memory: Memory and Marginality in To the End of the Land by David
Grossman and Jorge Luis Borges' "Funes el Memorioso"
Vered Weiss
Chapter 3. Stress, Repression, and Humor in Israeli Comics: The Cases of Rutu Modan and
Gilad Seliktar
Ilaria Stiller
Chapter 4. Rockets, Turtles, and the Political Abyss: Hebrew Literature from the Gaza Envelope
Osnat Lemko
Chapter 5. Facing the Chaos: Contemporary Israeli Literature (Re)Acting to Uncertain Times
Omri Herzog and Nurith Gertz
Chapter 6. "I've never seen the world be so cruel" Performances of Mizrahi masculinity under a
state of emergency in Sderot: A sociological-gender analysis of the film Hula and Natan
Moti Gigi and Haim (Hai) Bitton
Chapter 7. The State of Israel Is Disintegrating. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Conclusion of the
Film On the Hilltop Youth, Religious Zionism, and Israeli Literature
Yael Shenker
Chapter 8. A Stressful Identity: Jews, Other Nations, and Other Religions
Avner Dinur
Conclusion: Essays from Sapir, a College under Attack
Avner Dinur, Irit Ronen, Vered Weiss
About the Contributors
