Description
Book SynopsisIsraeli Culture and Emergency Routine: Normalizing Stress explores the ways stress associated with a prolonged state of war, traumas, and emergency routine produces Israeli culture. Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine exposes the ways Israeli “emergency routine” leads to perpetual stress and trauma that are overwhelmingly present in the cultural production of Israeli art and literature. The nine chapters engage with a variety of Israeli cultural artifacts, including poetry, prose, film and graphic novels, and cast a wide temporal net, reaching from as early as the 1960s to 2019. In doing so, the collection sheds light upon the ramifications of the constant stress of the Israeli emergency routine on academic and cultural discourses and alerts us to be attentive to the effects of the physical world on the formulation of our world view within our social and political reality.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments
Introduction: Introduction: Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine
Irit Ronen, Avner Dinur, Vered Weiss
Chapter 1. The State of Emergency and the Ethos: The Poetry of Aharon Shabtai
Irit Ronen
Chapter 2. Monstrous Memory: Memory and Marginality in To the End of the Land by David
Grossman and Jorge Luis Borges’ “Funes el Memorioso”
Vered Weiss
Chapter 3. Stress, Repression, and Humor in Israeli Comics: The Cases of Rutu Modan and
Gilad Seliktar
Ilaria Stiller
Chapter 4. Rockets, Turtles, and the Political Abyss: Hebrew Literature from the Gaza Envelope
Nirit Kurman
Chapter 5. Facing the Chaos: Contemporary Israeli Literature (Re)Acting to Uncertain Times
Omri Herzog and Nurith Gertz
Chapter 6. “I’ve never seen the world be so cruel” 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
Chapter 7. 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
Chapter 8. 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
About the Contributors
