Writing about Trafficking of the Body without Devoting Oneself to It

Thursday | 11.02.21 | 20:00

A conversation with Maayan Eitan about literature and capitalism |

Hebrew literature and its critical study rarely address the capitalist order, and since the 1990s and the rise of postcolonial criticism, concepts such as “nationality” and “identity” have marginalized even more the discussion of our economic ways of life. However, with Israel’s transition in the 1980s from a centralized society to a neoliberal one, how capitalism shapes our lives—our public and our most intimate lives, and even more so our literature—is completely clear. If the time has come for postcapitalism, certainly the time has come for a more thorough discussion of capitalism in Israeli literature and art. Love, by Maayan Eitan (Resling)—which combines an experimental form that does not bow to commercial literary patterns with a rare engagement with prostitution and trafficking of the body—makes it possible to discuss the connection between capitalism and literature and to promote a different kind of discussion in the study of Hebrew literature.

Participants

Maayan Eitan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Kfir Cohen Lustig, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Dr. Shira Stav, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr.Yoav Ronel, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

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