Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture

Reimagining Israel and Palestine sheds new light on the complex cultural, historical and political factors that shape German and British representations of Israel and Palestine. Hesse brings together a multimedia archive to analyse the ways in which British and German authors, filmmakers and producers have engaged with Israeli-Palestinian relations with a mixture of hope, naivete and resignation.–Drew Paul, University of Tennessee

Isabelle Hesse is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research is situated at the intersection of Jewish, Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies. She is the author of The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism, and Colonialism (2016) and co-edited Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict after the Second Intifada (2022) with Ned Curthoys.