Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada

Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Space, Borders, and Ethics
	Overview
Part 1: In the Heart of Darkness
	Chapter 1: On a Hot Tin Roof
		On Distancing
		On the Roof
		Intimacy—Down from the Roof
		Animalism
		Conclusion
	Chapter 2: No Luck
		Shooting and Crying
		Moral Luck
		Circumstantial Moral Luck
		Constitutive Moral Luck
	Chapter 3: The Third Eye
		A Palestinian Legend
		The State of Exception
		From Stereotype to Grotesque
		The Smile of the Lamb and Abjection
		The Living Dead in The Intifada Tales
		Human Organs in Letters of the Sun, Letters of the Moon
		On Storytelling
Part 2: Does Literature Matter?
	Chapter 4: A. B. Yehoshua and the Moderation on the Left at the Turn of the Millennium
		Fathers, Sons, and the Myth of the Akeda in Yehoshua’s Works
		Two Kinds of Sacrifice
		On Winds and Responsibility
		The Larger Picture
	Chapter 5: Orly Castel-Bloom between the Two Intifadas
		Dolly’s World
		The Mother and the Map
		Illness
		From the Anatomy of the Body to the Anatomy of Death
		From Dolly City to Human Parts
		Castel-Bloom’s Moral Compass
	Chapter 6: Terrorism and the Face of the Dead Other
		On Levinas and Otherness
		The Encounter
		The Face of the Other
		The Responsibility to the Other Who Is Dead
		A Call for a Different Ethics
	Chapter 7: Dismantling Borders: A Female Perspective
		The Rhizomatic Space
		Nomadic Art
		Deterritorialization and Femaleness
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index