Disenthralling ourselves
Subtitle: rhetoric of revenge and reconciliation in contemporary Israel
By: Nita Schechet.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison (N.J.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780838642047
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Peace; Reconciliation; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Social aspects; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Israel; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Psychological aspects
Description: "Disenthralling Ourselves portrays contemporary Israel in a process of transition. Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli communities share a nation-state divided by the separate truths of its conflicting fundamental narratives. This book considers ways of converting those separate and antagonistic narratives from fuel for conflict to seeds of change. Its purpose is to undo the convenient coherence of collective memory and master narratives through fostering a capacious moral imagination able to apprehend diverse, even contentious, stories and truths." "Contemporary Israel functions as a case study in an in-depth and interdisciplinary exploration of conflict resolution, viewing Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli documentary film, poetry, fiction, essays, memoir, peace initiatives, and other elements of collective narrative-building through a prism of three analogously themed Shakespearean plays. This comparative methodology is integrated with theoretical perspectives on reconciliation, resilience, critical reflection, and peace education in presenting concrete alternatives to the convenient comforts of the inimical master narratives that perpetuate what can now be seen as a hundred-year war." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Disenthralling ourselves; title: Seeing in the dark; title: It shall go hard: rhetoric of revenge; title: Hamletism and opsimism: rhetoric and identities in transition; title: Seeing better: rhetoric of reconciliation; title: On fairies and buffalo: enigmatic signifiers of cultural change; title: Alternatively.