Jacqueline Rose is professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of many books, including The Last Resistance, The Question of Zion, and Albertine: A Novel.
"This book pushes at the limits of postcolonialism and deconstructs
some of its certainties--to wit, the smugness that smoothes out
complexity in order to make it easier to separate victim from
oppressor. Rose shows not only that those in the West are the
creators of their own version of the Orient, but that the Orient is
embedded, however uncomfortably, in the West, and that there are
trading pathways that crisscross between Europe and the Middle
East, which must at all cost be remembered and maintained. It is
exhilarating to read something so bold, that is reaching so
urgently for something beyond itself, so strongly anchored, and yet
in search of truths somewhere most people refuse to look."--Ingrid
Wassenaar, author of Proustian Passions "Ingrid Wassenaar, author
of "Proustian Passions""
"Jacqueline Rose's brilliant achievement in her new book is to
argue knowledgeably and persuasively for the relevance that reading
Proust and Freud has to the violent antagonism opposing Jews and
Arabs in the Middle East. This is a compelling work that will
provoke much debate."--Leo Bersani, University of California,
Berkeley
"Rose has an exceptional gift for writing about a moment in the
past in such a way as to light up an entire landscape of human
experience--always with an eye to our own times and predicaments.
In a sense, the Dreyfus trial is her Madeleine episode. As she
brings it to mind, a whole host of thoughts and emotions are
stirred--including ones we would rather resist, not least on the
subject of Israel-Palestine. Proust, Rose argues, wants us 'to
worry to the very edge of our convictions.' Her book, written with
style, insight, erudition, feeling, and flair, gets us to do
exactly that."--Brian Klug, University of Oxford
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