Hydrofictions

Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature

By: Hannah Boast

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Paperback | 30 May 2022

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Places water at the centre of a new approach to literary criticismWater is a major global issue that will shape our future. Rarely, however, has water been the subject of literary critical attention. This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water resources, focusing on the urgent context of Israel/Palestine. It argues for the necessity of recognising water's vital importance in understanding contemporary Israeli and Palestinian literature, showing that water is as culturally significant as that much more obvious object of nationalist attention, the land. In doing so, it offers new insights into Israeli and Palestinian literature and politics, and into the role of culture in an age of environmental crisis. Hydrofictions shows that how we imagine water is inseparable from how we manage it. This book is urgent and necessary reading for students and scholars in Middle East Studies, postcolonial ecocriticism, the environmental humanities and anyone invested in the future of the world's water.

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Hannah Boast's Hydrofictions: Water, power, and politics in Israeli and Palestinian literature is a forceful book that foregrounds water in a settler-colonial context where scholarship is focused almost exclusively on land.--Muna Dajani "Journal of Palestine Studies"
Turning to Israel/Palestine as a case study, Hydrofictions [...] makes a compelling case for the role of literary fiction and cultural representations as a means to discern the complex interplay between hydrosocial relations and hydropolitical regimes. As a potentially foundational entry in an emerging hydro-humanities, Hydrofictions is a must read.--Matthew Henry "Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture"
With the publication of Hydrofictions, Hannah Boast spearheads critical innovation in a region often overlooked in postcolonial studies. [...] This leads to novel and unexpected ways of confronting what can be a daunting corpus.--Michael W. Pritchard "Postcolonial Text"

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