Hannah Boast

Hydrofictions (eBook, PDF)

Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Water is a major global issue that will shape our future. Rarely, however, has water been the subject of literary critical attention. This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water resources, focusing on the urgent context of Israel/Palestine. It argues for the necessity of recognising water's vital importance in understanding contemporary Israeli and Palestinian literature, showing that water is as culturally significant as that much more obvious object of nationalist attention, the land. In doing so, it offers new insights into Israeli and Palestinian literature and politics, and into the role of culture in an age of environmental crisis. Hydrofictions shows that how we imagine water is inseparable from how we manage it. This book is urgent and necessary reading for students and scholars in Middle East Studies, postcolonial ecocriticism, the environmental humanities and anyone invested in the future of the world's water.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474443821
• Artikelnr.: 72420061

Autorenporträt

Hannah Boast is Assistant Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Crossing the River: Home and Exile at the River Jordan
2. 'The dense, murky water of the past': Swamps, nostalgia and
settlement myth in Meir Shalev's The Blue Mountain
3. 'Current Liquidisations Ltd.': Israel's 'Mediterranean' Identity in
Amos Oz's The Same Sea
4. Water Wars: Infrastructures of Violence in Sayed Kashua's Let It Be
Morning
Conclusion
Bibliography