Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture

Isabelle Hesse

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Edinburgh University Press
11 June 2024

Film theory & criticism; Television; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Jewish studies; Islamic studies

Isabelle Hesseidentifies an important relational turn in British and German literature, TV drama, and film published and produced since the First Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993). This turn manifests itself on two levels: one, in representing Israeli and Palestinian histories and narratives as connected rather than separate, and two, by emphasising the links between the current situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the roles that the United Kingdom and Germany have played historically, and continue to play, in the region. This relational turn constitutes a significant shift in representations of Israel and Palestine in British and German culture as these depictions move beyond an engagement with the Holocaust and Jewish suffering at the expense of Palestinian suffering and indicate a willingness to represent and acknowledge British and German involvement in Israeli and Palestinian politics.

This book offers new ways of thinking about how Israel and Palestine are imagined and reimagined as topics of cultural and political interest in two countries that have had complicated histories with both Israel and Palestine, histories which are marked by each country's memories of the Holocaust and colonialism.

By: Isabelle Hesse
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781399523677
ISBN 10: 1399523678
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 11 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Isabelle Hesse is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research is situated at the intersection of Jewish, Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and she is the author of The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism, and Colonialism (2016) and has co-edited Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict after the Second Intifada (2022) with Ned Curthoys.

Reviews for Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture

Reimagining Israel and Palestine sheds new light on the complex cultural, historical and political factors that shape German and British representations of Israel and Palestine. Hesse brings together a multimedia archive to analyse the ways in which British and German authors, filmmakers and producers have engaged with Israeli-Palestinian relations with a mixture of hope, naivete and resignation.--Drew Paul, University of Tennessee