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- Title
Bonding with the British: Colonial Nostalgia and the Idealization of Mandatory Palestine in Israeli Literature and Culture after 1967.
- Authors
Bar-Yosef, Eitan
- Abstract
Since the founding of Israel in 1948, the Yishuv's campaign against British rule has been idealized as a period of bygone heroism and commitment. Beginning in the late 1960s, however, this nostalgia for the pre-state, anticolonial struggle was complemented, even challenged, by a divergent nostalgic force--one that celebrates the romance of the Mandate's colonial features, yearns for the social and political opportunities made possible by the presence of the imperial regime, and ultimately laments its demise. Tracing and contextualizing expressions of this longing in Israeli literature, cinema, and theater, this article argues that "colonial" nostalgia for the Mandate is rooted in the geopolitical effects of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War: driven by a growing sense of guilt over Israel's occupation, Israeli authors have depicted Mandatory Palestine as a cosmopolitan haven in which the Israelis, restored to the status of colonial subjects, are freed from the burden of sovereignty.
- Subjects
ISRAELI literature; NOSTALGIA; ANTI-imperialist movements; COSMOPOLITANISM; PALESTINIAN history, 1917-1948; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/jewisocistud.22.3.01