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

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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