Introduction: Introduction: Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine / Irit Ronen, Avner Dinur, Vered Weiss -- The State of Emergency and the Ethos: The Poetry of Aharon Shabtai / Irit Ronen -- Monstrous Memory: Memory and Marginality in To the End of the Land by David Grossman and Jorge Luis Borges’ ́Funes el Memoriosó / Vered Weiss -- Stress, Repression, and Humor in Israeli Comics: The Cases of Rutu Modan and Gilad Seliktar / Ilaria Stiller -- Rockets, Turtles, and the Political Abyss: Hebrew Literature from the Gaza Envelope / Osnat Lemko -- Facing the Chaos: Contemporary Israeli Literature (Re)Acting to Uncertain Times / Omri Herzog and Nurith Gertz -- ́I’ve never seen the world be so crueĺ Performances of Mizrahi masculinity under a state of emergency in Sderot: A sociological-gender analysis of the film Hula and Natan / Moti Gigi and Haim (Hai) Bitton -- The State of Israel Is Disintegrating. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Conclusion of the Film On the Hilltop Youth, Religious Zionism, and Israeli Literature / Yael Shenker -- A Stressful Identity: Jews, Other Nations, and Other Religions / Avner Dinur -- Conclusion: Essays from Sapir, a College under Attack / Avner Dinur, Irit Ronen, Vered Weiss.
Summary:
"Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine: Normalizing Stress explores the ways stress associated with a prolonged state of war, traumas, and emergency routine produces culture. This book examines the ways Israeli "emergency routine" leads to perpetual stress and trauma that are overwhelmingly present in the cultural production of art and literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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