Israel in the Making: Stickers, Stitches, and Other Critical Practices

Israel in the Making: Stickers, Stitches, and Other Critical Practices
ISBN-10
0253022800
ISBN-13
9780253022806
Category
History
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2017
Author
Hagar Salamon

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Cover -- ISRAEL IN THE MAKING -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Studying Israeli Folklore -- Part I. Folklore in the Israeli Public Arena -- Part I Invitation: Bumper Stickers as a Podium in Motion -- 1 Folklore as an Emotional Battleground: Political Bumper Stickers -- 2 "We the People": Ha'Am in the Turbulent Sphere of Israeli Roads -- 3 Kinetic Cosmologies: Sovereign and Sovereignty -- Part I Recapitulation: Public Interaction on the Move -- Part II. Expressions in the Intimate Arena of Embroidery -- Part II Invitation: Embroidering Identity-Needlework and Needle-Talk -- 4 Embroidering Their Selves: Femininity and Embroidery in a Jerusalem Women's Group -- 5 Life Story as a Foundation Legend of Local Identity -- 6 The Intimate Career of a Transitional Object: Needlepoint Embroideries -- Part II Recapitulation: Needle Texts-Knowledge, Passion, and Empowerment -- Part III. Between the Public and the Private-the Mirrors of Ambivalence -- Part III Invitation: Emplacing Israeliness-Shifting Performances of Belonging and Otherness -- 7 The Floor Falling Away: Dislocated Space and Body in the Humor of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel -- 8 What Goes Around, Comes Around: Rotating Credit Associations among Ethiopian Women in Israel -- 9 "David Levi" Jokes: The Ambivalence over the Levantinization of Israel -- Part III Recapitulation: Between Longing and Belonging-the Folkloric Expressions of Ambivalence -- Closing Words: The Birth of Public Enunciation from the Spirit of Everyday Life -- Bibliography -- Index

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