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 and she is the author of The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism, and Colonialism (2016) and has co-edited Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict after the Second Intifada (2022) with Ned Curthoys.

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Relational Turn in British and German Culture1 Displaced Relationality: Israel as a Mirror for Germany2 Relational Memories: The Holocaust and the Nakba in the British Imaginary3 Libidinal Relationality: Humour, the Holocaust and Palestine/Israel in German Culture4 Disrupted Familial Relationality: Ethnicity, Alternative Alliances and Hybridity in Contemporary British Culture5 Relational Coexistence: Donations across Divides and Imagined Kinship in Palestine/IsraelConclusion: Future RelationalitiesBibliographyIndex

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 and she is the author of The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism, and Colonialism (2016) and has co-edited Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict after the Second Intifada (2022) with Ned Curthoys.

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Relational Turn in British and German Culture1 Displaced Relationality: Israel as a Mirror for Germany2 Relational Memories: The Holocaust and the Nakba in the British Imaginary3 Libidinal Relationality: Humour, the Holocaust and Palestine/Israel in German Culture4 Disrupted Familial Relationality: Ethnicity, Alternative Alliances and Hybridity in Contemporary British Culture5 Relational Coexistence: Donations across Divides and Imagined Kinship in Palestine/IsraelConclusion: Future RelationalitiesBibliographyIndex

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 and she is the author of The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism, and Colonialism (2016) and has co-edited Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict after the Second Intifada (2022) with Ned Curthoys.

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Relational Turn in British and German Culture1 Displaced Relationality: Israel as a Mirror for Germany2 Relational Memories: The Holocaust and the Nakba in the British Imaginary3 Libidinal Relationality: Humour, the Holocaust and Palestine/Israel in German Culture4 Disrupted Familial Relationality: Ethnicity, Alternative Alliances and Hybridity in Contemporary British Culture5 Relational Coexistence: Donations across Divides and Imagined Kinship in Palestine/IsraelConclusion: Future RelationalitiesBibliographyIndex