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Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision, the novel Albertine, On Not Being Able to Sleep and The Question of Zion. She contributes regularly to the London Review of Books, and wrote and presented the Channel 4 documentary Dangerous Liaison—Israel and America.

A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times.

Preface     xi
Introduction     1
Zionism Inside-Out     15
The Last Resistance     17
Displacement in Zion     39
Mass Psychology     62
The Hidden Life of Vladimir Jabotinsky     93
David Grossman's Dilemma     111
Deadly Embrace     125
After Disaster     137
The Body of Evil: Arendt, Coetzee and 9/11     139
Freud and the People, or Freud Goes to Abu Ghraib     159
On Being Nadine Gordimer     168
Specimen Days: On Michael Cunningham and Walt Whitman     182
Men and Women in Dark Times     191
Continuing the Dialogue - On Edward Said     193
Born Jewish - On Marcel Liebman     200
All Men are Mortal - On Simone de Beauvoir     209
Holocaust Premises: Political Implications of the Traumatic Frame - With Judith Buder     214
On Gillian Rose     223
Index     231