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The Last Resistance

Name: The Last Resistance
Author: Jacqueline Rose
ISBN: 9781844672264

by Jacqueline Rose

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Overview

A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times

In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose conducts a unique examination of Zionist identity and imagination. Deftly interweaving textual analysis, psychoanalysis and political critique, she presents a timely reappraisal of the Near East crisis.

Part celebration of Jewish culture and part critique of Zionism, The Last Resistance is a meditation on one of the principal and most complex problems of our times.

Synopsis

In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here, literature is presented as a unique form of dissidence, with the power to expose the unconscious of nations, and often proposing radical alternatives to their dominant pathways and beliefs.

While Israel-Palestine is the repeated focus, The Last Resistance also turns to post-apartheid South Africa, to American national fantasy post-9/11, and to key moments for the understanding of Jewish culture and memory. Rose also underscores the importance of psychoanalysis, both historically in relation to the unfolding of world events, and as a tool of political understanding.

Examining topics ranging from David Grossman, through W.G. Sebald, Freud, Nadine Gordimer, the concept of evil, and suicide bombers, The Last Resistance offers a unique way of responding to the crises of the times.

About the Author, Jacqueline Rose

JACQUELINE ROSE is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision; The Question of Zion ; and the novel Albertine.