The Last Resistance

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Jacqueline Rose has written what can only be called a masterpiece of scholarship and thought. The Last Resistance , exploring the role of literature in the Zionist imagination and Jewish memory, is a work of stunning insight and moral courage. Destined to become a standard in the field, it will have a profound and lasting impact.-Sara Roy, Harvard University In The Last Resistance , Jacqueline Rose uses her knowledge of literature, psychoanalysis, and politics to brilliantly illuminating effect. The volume will greatly enhance Professor Rose's reputation as a literary critic and public intellectual. Stimulating and thought-provoking, it deserves to be read widely.-Avi Shlaim, University of Oxford The miracle of Jacqueline Rose is that she combines textual criticism with concrete political struggles in a brilliant way. In this book, a breathtakingly refined textual analysis sustains a passionate, ethical and political engagement in the ongoing Near East crisis. This alone makes her a model of what a public intellectual should be.-Slavoj Zizek