The Last ResistanceVerso 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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... violence against another people, the Palestinians, who find themselves engaged today in a resistance of their own. These forms of resistance are not the same, any more than what, or whom, they are fighting against. Across the world ...
... violence against another people, the Palestinians, who find themselves engaged today in a resistance of their own. These forms of resistance are not the same, any more than what, or whom, they are fighting against. Across the world ...
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... violence of a nationalism that will do anything, including murder, to preserve itself. 'I have established quite calmly', he writes to Freud in 1935, 'that I do not belong here.' (He finally leaves for what will become the GDR in 1948 ...
... violence of a nationalism that will do anything, including murder, to preserve itself. 'I have established quite calmly', he writes to Freud in 1935, 'that I do not belong here.' (He finally leaves for what will become the GDR in 1948 ...
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... violence as a young girl; or moments where she finds herself, all too human, like the men on the verge of execution, subject to the depredations of her ageing, declining bodily self. Coetzee's essay is like a Russian doll:
... violence as a young girl; or moments where she finds herself, all too human, like the men on the verge of execution, subject to the depredations of her ageing, declining bodily self. Coetzee's essay is like a Russian doll:
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... violence by flinging all evil to the farthest corners of the earth. Fiction appears here then as at once dilemma and opportunity. In this there is also a crucial political point. Going too far might be another way of making connections ...
... violence by flinging all evil to the farthest corners of the earth. Fiction appears here then as at once dilemma and opportunity. In this there is also a crucial political point. Going too far might be another way of making connections ...
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... against Terror', 'Axis of Evil', these are just two of the phrases through which we are all invited, more or less on a daily basis, to stifle disquiet, ratchet up our inner violence, go to war. 'The man who is the possessor of force', Weil.
... against Terror', 'Axis of Evil', these are just two of the phrases through which we are all invited, more or less on a daily basis, to stifle disquiet, ratchet up our inner violence, go to war. 'The man who is the possessor of force', Weil.
Inhoudsopgave
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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