Introduction: Israeli Critical Reflection After Post-Zionism, or The Opening as Interpretive Horizon
Abstract
This essay attempts to situate this special issue as an intervention, from a materialist perspective, in the field of Israeli cultural studies. We interrogate the common periodizations of Israeli culture, and its contemporary characterization as “post-post-Zionist.” We try to show that the latter betrays an unacknowledged failure of historical narration, present throughout Israeli cultural production. We then argue that rather than being satisfied with this failure, the goal of Israeli cultural critique today should be to search for new ways to narrate “big” history, to reassert the indispensability of relating personal experience of the present, in all its details, to the making of history. We then explain how each of the contributions to this special issue takes this task upon itself—some more and some less explicitly.
Recommended Citation
Nir, Oded;
and Ofengenden, Ari.
"Introduction: Israeli Critical Reflection After Post-Zionism, or The Opening as Interpretive Horizon."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
21.2
(2019):
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