Makers of worlds, readers of signs : Israeli and Palestinian literature of the global contemporary

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Label

Makers of worlds, readers of signs : Israeli and Palestinian literature of the global contemporary

Title remainder

Israeli and Palestinian literature of the global contemporary

Statement of responsibility

Kfir Cohen Lustig

Creator

• Lustig, Kfir Cohen

Author

• Lustig, Kfir Cohen

Subject

• Arab-Israeli conflict -- Literature and the conflict
• Arab-Israeli conflict -- Literature and the conflict
• Arabic literature
• Arabic literature
• Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Arabic literature -- Palestine -- History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Globalization in literature
• Globalization in literature
• 1900-1999
• Israeli literature
• Israeli literature
• Israeli literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Literature and globalization
• Literature and globalization
• Literature and globalization
• Middle East -- Palestine
• Middle East -- Palestine
• Globalization in literature
• Arab-Israeli conflict -- Literature and the conflict

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs presents a new theoretical and historical approach to Israeli and Palestinian literature, as well as to the contemporary system of world literature, one that accounts for the consequences of neoliberal globalization. Cohen Lustig proposes that until the neoliberal moment, socio-poetic form was defined by concepts of autonomy and temporality: in Western Europe autonomy is defined as a ready-made property of the individual subject; in Israel and Palestine, between the 1940s and the 1990s, autonomy was the ground for debate over collective political and aesthetic projects. In the global neoliberal period, after 1985 in Israel and the 1993 Oslo Accords in Palestine, when privatization escalated in the region, social life and literature begin to revolve around the experience of subjects for whom the world was no longer an object to be made but a text to be read. In this historical condition, Israeli and Palestinian literature narrated the political conditions of local life in a way that exceeded the nation state and questioned the coherence of private life. To see this transformation requires a new concept of global literature that can track the development of subjectivity and aesthetics through larger shifts in politics and economic production"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

809/.8956940904

Index

index present

LC call number

PN56.G55

LC item number

L97 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography