Desert in the promised land /

At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zerubavel, Yael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Subjects:
Deserts > Symbolic aspects > Israel.
Discourse analysis > Israel.
Semiotics > Israel.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Deserts > Symbolic aspects.
Discourse analysis.
Semiotics.
Negev (Israel) > Symbolic representation.
Israel.
Israel > Negev.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Desert as historical metaphor
  • The desert mystique
  • Desert as the counterplace
  • The Negev frontier
  • The Negev Bedouins
  • Unsettled landscapes
  • The desert and the tourist gaze
  • Epilogue : memory, space, and contested visions.

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