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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 DeadA Call for a Different Ethics; Chapter 7: Dismantling Borders: A Female Perspective; The Rhizomatic Space; Nomadic Art; Deterritorialization and Femaleness; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index "Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the multifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics manifested in contemporary Hebrew literature dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the occupation. In this volume, Mendelson-Maoz analyzes Israeli prose written between 1987 and 2007, relating mainly to the first and second intifadas, written by well-known authors such as Yehoshua, Grossman, Matalon, Castel-Bloom, Govrin, Kravitz, and Levy. Mendelson-Maoz raises critical questions regarding militarism, humanism, the nature of the State of Israel as a democracy, national identity and its borders, soldiers as moral individuals, the nature of Zionist education, the acknowledgment of the Other, and the sovereignty of the subject. She discusses these issues within two frameworks. The first draws on theories of ethics in the humanist tradition and its critical extensions, especially by Levinas. The second applies theories of space, and in particular deterritorialization as put forward by Deleuze and Guattari and their successors. Overall this volume provides an innovative theoretical analysis of the collage of voices and artistic directions in contemporary Israeli prose written in times of political and cultural debate on the occupation and its intifadas."--
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