The Last Resistance

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Verso Books, 28 mrt 2017 - 256 pagina's
A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times

In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here, literature is presented as a unique form of dissidence, with the power to expose the unconscious of nations, and often proposing radical alternatives to their dominant pathways and beliefs.

While Israel–Palestine is the repeated focus, The Last Resistance also turns to post-apartheid South Africa, to American national fantasy post-9/11, and to key moments for the understanding of Jewish culture and memory. Rose also underscores the importance of psychoanalysis, both historically in relation to the unfolding of world events, and as a tool of political understanding.

Examining topics ranging from David Grossman, through W.G. Sebald, Freud, Nadine Gordimer, the concept of evil, and suicide bombers, The Last Resistance offers a unique way of responding to the crises of the times.

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Preface
Introduction
Zionism InsideOut
The Last Resistance
Displacement in Zion
Mass Psychology
The Hidden Life of Vladimir Jabotinsky
David Grossmans Dilemma
Deadly Embrace
After Disaster
Arendt Coetzee and 911
Freud and the People or Freud Goes to Abu Ghraib
On Being Nadine Gordimer
On Michael Cunningham and Walt Whitman
Men and Women in Dark Times
Continuing the Dialogue On Edward Said

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Over de auteur (2017)

Jacqueline Rose is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and the politics and ideology of Israel-Palestine. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of VisionThe Haunting of Sylvia PlathStates of FantasyThe Question of Zion, and most recently Women in Dark Times.

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