Water 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. Read more ASIN B0C14XV6DJ XRay Not Enabled ISBN13 978-1474443838 Language English File size 2.3 MB Page Flip Enabled Publisher EUP Word Wise Not Enabled Print length 330 pages Accessibility Learn more Screen Reader Supported Publication date July 6, 2020 Enhanced typesetting Enabled