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Author Boast, Hannah, author.

Title Hydrofictions : water, power and politics in Israeli and Palestinian literature / Hannah Boast.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2020]

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Contents Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Crossing the River: Home and Exile at the River Jordan -- 2 'The dense, murky water of the past': Swamps, Nostalgia and Settlement Myth in Meir Shalev's The Blue Mountain -- 3 'Current Liquidisations Ltd.': Israel's 'Mediterranean' Identity in Amos Oz's The Same Sea -- 4 Water Wars: Infrastructures of Violence in Sayed Kashua's Let It Be Morning -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water resources, focusing on the urgent context of Israel/Palestine.
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Subject Israeli literature -- History and criticism.
Israeli literature.
Arabic literature -- Palestine -- History and criticism.
Arabic literature.
Water in literature.
Water in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Politics in literature.
Politics in literature.
Middle East -- Palestine.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 147444380X 9781474443807 (OCoLC)1136962516
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9781474443807
147444380X