Rhetorics of Belonging - Nation, Narration and Israel/Palestine

Describes the formation and operation of a category of Palestinian and Israeli 'world literature' whose authors actively respond to the expectation that their work will 'narrate' the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a literary prac...

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Yazar: Bernard, Anna
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description Describes the formation and operation of a category of Palestinian and Israeli 'world literature' whose authors actively respond to the expectation that their work will 'narrate' the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a literary practice. The crisis in Israel/Palestine has long been the world’s most visible military conflict. Yet the region’s cultural and intellectual life remains all but unknown to most foreign observers, which means that literary texts that make it into circulation abroad tend to be received as historical documents rather than aesthetic artefacts. Rhetorics of Belonging examines the diverse ways in which Palestinian and Israeli world writers have responded to the expectation that they will ‘narrate’ the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a reading and writing practice. It considers writers whose work is rarely discussed together, offering new readings of the work of Edward Said, Amos Oz, Mourid Barghouti, Orly Castel-Bloom, Sahar Khalifeh, and Anton Shammas. This book helps to restore the category of the nation to contemporary literary criticism by attending to a context where the idea of the nation is so central a part of everyday experience that writers cannot not address it, and readers cannot help but read for it. It also points a way toward a relational literary history of Israel/Palestine, one that would situate Palestinian and Israeli writing in the context of a history of antagonistic interaction. The book’s findings are relevant not only for scholars working in postcolonial studies and Israel/Palestine studies, but for anyone interested in the difficult and unpredictable intersections of literature and politics. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-371012025-01-29T14:20:13Z Rhetorics of Belonging - Nation, Narration and Israel/Palestine Bernard, Anna middle east history politics Allegory Arabs Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israelis Palestinians Rhetoric State of Palestine Zionism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independence Describes the formation and operation of a category of Palestinian and Israeli 'world literature' whose authors actively respond to the expectation that their work will 'narrate' the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a literary practice. The crisis in Israel/Palestine has long been the world’s most visible military conflict. Yet the region’s cultural and intellectual life remains all but unknown to most foreign observers, which means that literary texts that make it into circulation abroad tend to be received as historical documents rather than aesthetic artefacts. Rhetorics of Belonging examines the diverse ways in which Palestinian and Israeli world writers have responded to the expectation that they will ‘narrate’ the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a reading and writing practice. It considers writers whose work is rarely discussed together, offering new readings of the work of Edward Said, Amos Oz, Mourid Barghouti, Orly Castel-Bloom, Sahar Khalifeh, and Anton Shammas. This book helps to restore the category of the nation to contemporary literary criticism by attending to a context where the idea of the nation is so central a part of everyday experience that writers cannot not address it, and readers cannot help but read for it. It also points a way toward a relational literary history of Israel/Palestine, one that would situate Palestinian and Israeli writing in the context of a history of antagonistic interaction. The book’s findings are relevant not only for scholars working in postcolonial studies and Israel/Palestine studies, but for anyone interested in the difficult and unpredictable intersections of literature and politics. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-06-27 23:55 2014-03-10 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:47:41Z 2013 book 469301 OCN: 875673222 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33469 9781781386088 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37101 eng Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33469/1/469301.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33469/1/469301.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33469/1/469301.pdf Liverpool University Press 10.5949/liverpool/9781846319433.001.0001 10.5949/liverpool/9781846319433.001.0001 aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef Knowledge Unlatched 9781781386088 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 208 Liverpool, UK open access
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history
politics
Allegory
Arabs
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israelis
Palestinians
Rhetoric
State of Palestine
Zionism
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Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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State of Palestine
Zionism
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