LEADER 03755nam 22005292 450 001 9910814822303321 005 20170818133255.0 010 $a1-78694-527-4 010 $a1-78138-435-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000908881 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4779089 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781384350 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001992606 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4779089 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11326017 035 $a(OCoLC)961105657 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000908881 100 $a20170307d2015|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrancophone Jewish writers $eimagining Israel /$fLucille Cairns$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 310 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aContemporary French and Francophone Cultures ;$v40 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a1-78138-262-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHistorical foundations of Israeli nationhood -- Modern Israeli paradigms of identity -- Intra-Israeli conflict -- Arab-Israeli conflict -- Arab-Israeli conflict turned Franco-Israeli conflict -- The metaphysics and poesis of Israel -- Supplement. 330 $aThis book considers the differing emotional investments in Israel of, on the one hand, Jews physically domiciled in Israel and, on the other hand, diasporic Jews living outside Israel for whom the country nonetheless forms a central point of affect. The book's purpose is to trace how these two types of investment are represented by francophone Jewish writers. Israel is at once a problematic geopolitical reality in international politics and a salient topos within Jewish cultural imaginaries that transcend national boundaries. However, it has often been claimed that Israel has a "special" relationship with France, which until 1967 was its greatest ally. Israel has a large francophone community (some 800,000), while France has the largest Jewish community in Europe (some 600,000). But Franco-Israeli relations have undergone radical, largely negative transformations under the Fifth Republic (1958- ). The scope of the book is wide, addressing the following questions. How do francophone Jewish writers represent Israel in their literary works? What responses to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict do they express both in these works and in non-literary discourse (interviews and journalistic articles)? What is the role in those responses of emotion, affect, cognition, and ethics? To answer these questions, the book examines 44 different autobiographies, memoirs and novels published between 1965 and 2012 by 27 different authors, both male and female, covering the full cultural spectrum of Jews: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Mizrahi. The approach of the book is interdisciplinary, combining literary analysis with insights from the domains of history, journalism, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, and sociology. 410 0$aContemporary French and francophone cultures ;$v40. 606 $aFrench literature$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJews in literature 607 $aIsrael$xIn literature 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aFrench literature$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJews in literature. 676 $a840.98924 700 $aCairns$b Lucille$f1963-$01641264 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814822303321 996 $aFrancophone Jewish writers$93985282 997 $aUNINA