Wrong Side of the River
Robert Alter: River Jordan, 21 June 2012
River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line
by Rachel Havrelock.
Chicago, 320 pp., £26, December 2011,978 0 226 31957 5 Show More
by Rachel Havrelock.
Chicago, 320 pp., £26, December 2011,
“... Rachel Havrelock’s River Jordan is broad in scope, subtle in interpretive detail and written in lucid prose, with an assured mastery of the relevant scholarship – all the more remarkable because it is her first book. What she has done in effect is to invent a new kind of historical analysis, which I would call cultural cartography, with culture comprising ideology and politics as well as national identity ... ”