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Zusatztext States of Fantasy is a brilliant! stimulating book! which exhibits a refreshing disregard for literary canon ... more provocative is its terminological novelty: the book's title heralds a departure from the more conventional 'culture and identity' approach. Klappentext In September 1993! Israel and the PLO signed their first peace treaty; in April 1994! South Africa held its first nonracial elections. Jacqueline Rose argues here for the importance of these two arenas of historic conflict to the English literary and cultural imagination and to the newdisciplinary boundaries of the humanities today. As in her previous books! her fundamental question is the place of fantasy in public and private identities. But in States of Fantasy she pushes her investigation into what at first glance seem unlikely places. In fact! as she convincinglydemonstrates! nowhere demonstrates more clearly than the above regions the need for a psychoanalytically informed understanding of historical process. And nothing makes more visible the unbreakable line that runs between literature and politics than the place of England and its writing in thosehistories. Her provocative study offers the strongest rebuttal to critics who try to sever the links between the study of literature and culture and the making and unmaking of the modern world. Zusammenfassung This text argues for an expansion of the boundaries of "English" and the importance of psychoanalysis in understanding literary and historical lives. It also explores the place of Israel/Palestine and South Africa in the English literary and cultural imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: States of Fantasy PART I. THE CLARENDON LECTURES 1: In the Land of Israel 2: Black Hamlet 3: The English at their Best 4: Just, Lasting, Comprehensive PART II. THE LIMITS OF CULTURE 5: Dorothy Richardson and the Jew 6: On the `Universality' of Madness: Bessie Head's A Question of Power Afterword: Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture (Inaugural Lecture, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London) Index ...
