Jacqueline Rose

Professor Jacqueline Rose FBA FRSL
Born	1949 (age 75–76) London, England
Relatives	Gillian Rose (sister)
Academic background
Education	St Hilda's College, Oxford, Sorbonne, Paris University of London

Rose graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford, and gained her higher degree ( maîtrise ) from the Sorbonne, Paris. She took her doctorate from the University of London, where she was supervised by Frank Kermode. ^[2] Her elder sister was the philosopher Gillian Rose.

Rose's book Albertine , a novel from 2001, is a feminist variation on Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu . ^[3]

Rose is best known for her critical study on the life and work of American poet Sylvia Plath, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, published in 1991. ^[4] In the book, Rose offers a postmodernist feminist interpretation of Plath's work, and criticises Plath's husband Ted Hughes and other editors of Plath's writing. Rose describes the hostility she experienced from Hughes and his sister (who acts as literary executor to Plath's estate) including threats received from Hughes about some of Rose's analysis of Plath's poem "The Rabbit Catcher". The Haunting of Sylvia Plath was critically acclaimed, and itself subject to a famous critique by Janet Malcolm in her book The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.^{[ citation needed ]}

Rose is a broadcaster and contributor to the London Review of Books . ^[5]

Rose's States of Fantasy (1996) was the inspiration for composer Mohammed Fairouz's Double Concerto of the same title. ^[6]

In 2022, Rose was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. ^[7]

Criticism of Israel

Rose is highly critical of Zionism, describing it as "[having] been traumatic for the Jews as well as the Palestinians". ^[8] In the same interview, Rose points to the internal critique of Zionism expressed by Martin Buber and Ahad Ha'am.

In The Question of Zion ^[9] Rose argued that Israel is responsible for "some of the worst cruelties of the modern nation-state". Israeli historian Alexander Yakobson described this as "moralizing" and disconnected from historical reality. ^[10]

Bibliography

• Lacan, Jacques (1985). Mitchell, Juliet; Rose, Jacqueline (eds.). Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne . Translated by Jacqueline Rose. New York, London: Pantheon Books W. W. Norton. ISBN   9780393302110 – via Internet Archive.
• — (2013) [1991]. The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. London: Virago. ISBN   9780349004358.
• — (1993). The Case of Peter Pan, or, The Impossibility of Children's Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   9780812214352.
• Rose, Jcqueline, ed. (1993). Why War? Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: B. Blackwell. ISBN   9780631189244.
• — (1996). "Feminine sexuality". In Jackson, Stevi; Scott, Sue (eds.). Feminism and Sexuality: A Reader. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 74–78. ISBN   9780231107082.
• — (1996). States of Fantasy. The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature. Oxford England; New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198182801.
• — (2002). Albertine (novel). London: Vintage. ISBN   9780099286035.
• — (2004). On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World. London: Vintage. ISBN   9780099286042.
• — (2005). Sexuality in the Field of Vision. London; New York: Verso. ISBN   9781844670581.
• — (2005). The Question of Zion . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN   9780691130682.
• — (2013) [2007]. The Last Resistance. London: Verso. ISBN   9781844672264.
• — (2011). Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226725789.
• — (2014). Women in Dark Times. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN   9781408845400.
• — (2018). Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN   9780571331437.
• — (2021). On Violence and On Violence Against Women. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN   9780571332717.
• — (2023). The Plague. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN   9781804270486.

References

1. "Our Staff", Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
2. Jeffries, Stuart (3 February 2012). "Jacqueline Rose: a life in writing". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 August 2021.
3. "Who's that girl?: Alex Clark finds, in Jacqueline Rose's Albertine, a richly suggestive and provocative voice for Proust's heroine," Alex Clark, The Guardian , 27 October 2001. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
4. Rose 2013.
5. "Jacqueline Rose", London Review of Books . Retrieved 8 June 2010.
6. Moore, Thomas (12 September 2010), Mohammed Fairouz: An Interview, Opera Today. Retrieved 19 April 2011
7. Wild, Stephi (12 July 2022). "RSL Announces 60 New Fellows and Honorary Fellows For 2022". BroadwayWorld . Retrieved 31 March 2023.
8. Rosemary Bechler (17 August 2005). "Nation as trauma, Zionism as question: Jacqueline Rose interviewed". openDemocracy . Archived from the original on 14 January 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2006.
9. Rose 2005, p. 116.
10. Alexander Yakobson (2008). "'The Joy of Moral Preaching', Review of: Jacqueline Rose, The Question of Zion, Hebrew translation by Oded Wolkstein" (PDF). Katharsis . 9. Translated by Sara Halper (from the original Hebrew): 18–50. Retrieved 2 March 2024– via Jewish Ideas Daily.

External links

• "Those opposing a cultural and academic boycott of Israel should examine the South African precedent, says Jacqueline Rose", openDemocracy, 4 September 2005. Rose's position on an academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
• "This land is your land", The Observer , 18 August 2002. Rose's views on the state of Israel.
• "What Zionism is Not, a review of The Question of Zion from a Zionist perspective", The Weekly Standard , 14 November 2005
• Interview, The Guardian , 4 January 2003
• "The Ideas Interview: Jacqueline Rose" – John Sutherland, The Guardian, 28 November 2005
• Israel and Resistance: an interview with Jacqueline Rose, State of Nature, Winter 2008
• Video: Jacqueline Rose chairing a discussion with Avi Shlaim and Shlomo Sand at the Frontline Club, London, 12 November 2009