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The Men We Loved
- Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture
Engelsk Hardback
The Men We Loved
- Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture
Engelsk Hardback

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Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet whereas in most instances this desire is displaced through humor and aggressive gestures, it becomes acknowledged and outright declared once associated with sites of heroic death. In his provocative study of interrelations between friendship in everyday life and national sentiments in Israel, the author follows selected stories of friendship ranging over early childhood, school, the workplace, and some unique war experiences. He explores the symbolism of friendship in rituals for the fallen soldiers, the commemoration of Prime Minister Yzhak Rabin, and the national infatuation with recovering bodies of missing soldiers. He concludes that the Israeli case offers an extreme instance of a much broader cultural phenomenon: declaring the friendship for the dead epitomizes the political “blood pact” between men, taking precedence over the traditional blood ties of kinship and heterosexual unions. The book underscores nationalism as a homosocial-based emotion of commemorative desire.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
190
ISBN-13:
9781845451929
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1845451929
Udg. Dato:
1 nov 2006
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
176mm
Højde:
240mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
1 nov 2006
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