The men we loved : male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture / / Danny Kaplan

• Autore: Kaplan Danny
• Pubblicazione: New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.3/4081095694
• Soggetto topico: Men - Israel - Psychology; Male friendship - Israel; Nationalism - Israel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Men We Loved; CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; Part I. FRIENDSHIP AND IDEOLOGY; Chapter One. THE CASE OF FRATERNAL FRIENDSHIP; Chapter Two. RE'UT: FRIENDSHIP IN ZIONIST IDEOLOGY; Part II. FRIENDSHIP IN EVERYDAY LIFE; Chapter Three. HISTORY AND DESTINY: FRIENDSHIP NARRATIVES; Chapter Four. Two Styles of Sharing: The HEVREMAN and the Intellectual; Chapter Five. PUBLIC INTIMACY AND THE MISCOMMUNICATION OF DESIRE; Part III. SACRED FRIENDSHIP; Chapter Six. DAVID, JONATHAN, AND OTHER SOLDIERS: THE HEGEMONIC SCRIPT FOR MALE BONDING; Chapter Seven. "SHALOM, HAVER": COMMEMORATION AS DESIRE ; DISCUSSION: NATIONALISM, FRIENDSHIP AND COMMEMORATIVE DESIREAppendix 1; Appendix 2; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet whereas in most instances this desire is displaced through humor and aggressive gestures, it becomes acknowledged and outright declared once associated with sites of heroic death. In his provocative study of interrelations between friendship in everyday life and national sentiments in Israel, the author follows selected stories of friendship ranging over early childhood, school, the workplace, and some unique war experiences. He explores the symbolism of friendship in rituals for the fallen soldiers, the commemoration of Prime Minister Yzhak Rabin, and the national infatuation with recovering bodies of missing soldiers. He concludes that the Israeli case offers an extreme instance of a much broader cultural phenomenon: declaring the friendship for the dead epitomizes the political “blood pact” between men, taking precedence over the traditional blood ties of kinship and heterosexual unions. The book underscores nationalism as a homosocial-based emotion of commemorative desire.
• Altri titoli varianti: Male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture
• Titolo autorizzato: The men we loved
• ISBN: 1-84545-192-9; 1-84545-193-7; 1-78238-937-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248315903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno