To build and be built : landscape, literature, and the construction of Zionist identity
"To Build and Be Built radically recontextualizes modernist Hebrew literature to demonstrate how literary aesthetics of nature formed the very political discourse they nominally reflected. Zakim's work sees no division between politics and representation. Instead, the depiction of nature in literature, art, and architecture became constitutive of a political and social understanding of the Jew's place in the Middle East. By refusing to acknowledge the disciplinary boundaries of standard works on literature, history, and political thoughts, To Build and Be Built challenges the methodological certainties that have guided popular and academic under-standings of the development of Zionist involvement in the land of Israel."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2006