Hydrofictions : : Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature / / Hannah Boast.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Boast, Hannah,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Places water at the centre of a new approach to literary criticismContributes to debates within literary studies on the environmental humanities, national literatures and ‘cli-fi’Brings together approaches from literary studies, cultural geography and world politicsAdds a new ecocritical dimension to scholarship on Israeli and Palestinian literaturesCovers a broad range of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian authors including Mourid Barghouti, Sayed Kashua and Amos OzWater 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 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 -- INDEX