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Narratives of Dissent

Narratives of Dissent War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture / [electronic resource] : Edited by Rachel S. Harris and Ranen Omer-Sherman. - Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (vi, 378 pages :) illustrations ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: zionism and the culture of dissent / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Private and public spaces of commemoration and mourning -- "Music of peace" at a time of war : Middle Eastern music amid the second intifada / Galeet Dardashti -- Privatizing commemoration : the helicopter disaster monument and the absent state / Michael Feige -- "Cyclic interruptions" : popular music on Israeli radio in times of emergency / Danny Kaplan -- Consuming nostalgia : greetings cards and soldier-citizens / Noa Roei -- The photographic memory of Asad Azi / Tal Ben Zvi -- "We shall remember them all" : the culture of online mourning and commemoration of fallen soldiers in Israel / Liav Sade-Beck -- Poetry and prose -- Bereavement and breakdown : war and failed motherhood in Raya Harnik's work / Esther Raizen -- From IDF to .pdf : war poetry in the Israeli digital age / Adriana X. Jacobs -- "Unveiling injustice" : Dahlia Ravikovitch's poetry of witness / Ilana Szobel -- War at home : literary engagements with the Israeli political crisis in two novels by Gabriela Avigur-Rotem / Shiri Goren -- Forcing the end : apocalyptic Israeli fiction, 1971-2009 / Adam Rovner -- Oh, my land, my birthplace : Lebanon war and intifada in Israeli fiction and poetry / Glenda Abramson -- Vexing resistance, complicating occupation : a contrapuntal reading of Sahar Khalifeh's wild thorns and David Grossman's The smile of the lamb / Philip Metres -- Gender, war, and zionist mythogynies : feminist trends in Israeli scholarship / Esther Fuchs -- Cinema and stage -- Representations of war in Israeli drama and theater / Dan Urian -- From national heroes to postnational witnesses : a reconstruction of Israeli soldiers' cinematic narratives as witnesses of history / Yael Munk -- A woman's war : The Gulf War and popular women's culture in Israel / Rachel S. Harris -- Beaufort the book, beaufort the film : Israeli militarism under attack / Yaron Peleg -- Shifting manhood: masculinity and the Lebanon war in Beaufort and waltz with Bashir / Philip Hollander -- List of contributors -- Index.

9780814338049


Art and war.
War and literature--Israel.


Electronic books.

PN56.W3 / N37 2012

700/.458569405