Proust Among the Nations - from Dreyfus to the Middle East

Proust Among the Nations - from Dreyfus to the Middle East

In partnership with Birkbeck Institute of Humanities
Disciplining Antisemitism Series

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has become one of the most enduring and it seems intractable problems of our time. In her new book, Proust among the Nations, Jacqueline Rose uses psychoanalysis, literature, and politics to reveal the conflict as a distinctly Western problem.

Re-examining the Dreyfus affair through the lens of Marcel Proust in dialogue with Freud, Rose offers a new perspective on the rise of Jewish nationalism and the subsequent creation of Israel. Taking the writings of Beckett and Genet, and writers, artists and filmmakers from the Middle East, she traces the shifting dynamic of memory and identity between Europe and Palestine and proposes new ways to think about the political struggle and violence in the Middle East.

This round-table will explore and interrogate Jacqueline Rose’s provocative thesis from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

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Jacqueline Rose
Proust among the Nations
The University of Chicago Press
October 2011

FIND OUT MORE: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo8505367.html

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