Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine

Orientalism, Poetry, and Biopolitics

AvH. Cohen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and Israeli literature, poetry, and discourse. The relationship between nationalism and demographics are examined through the narrative and poetic intrigue of intimacy between Arabs and Jews, drawing from a range of theoretical perspectives, including public sphere theory, orientalism, and critical race studies. Revisiting the controversial Brazilian writer Gilberto Freyre, who championed miscegenation in his revisionary history of Brazil, the book deploys a comparative investigation of Palestinian and Israeli writers' preoccupation with the mixed romance. Author Hella Bloom Cohen offers new interpretations of works by Mahmoud Darwish, A.B. Yehoshua, Orly Castel-Bloom, Nathalie Handal, and Rula Jebreal, among others.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-10
Mått:140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:404 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Postcolonialism and Religions
Antal sidor:210
Upplaga:2015
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137551368

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Hella Bloom Cohen is an assistant professor of English at St. Catherine University, USA. She previously held a visiting assistant professorship at Elon University, USA, and has published on material culture and global literature.

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'Attentive to political nuance, Hella Bloom Cohen makes a bold intervention in the current cultural debate surrounding Israel-Palestine, and does so through an innovative theoretical framework. This is an original, rigorous, and brave piece of scholarship.' - Anna Ball, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction to Palestinian-Israeli Literature and Postcolonial Studies: an Uneasy Relationship. 2. Reading Freyre in the Holy Land 3. 'The Synthetic Principle': Darwish's 'Rita' 4. 'Intimate Histories': Internal Miscegenation in a. b. Yehoshua's A Late Divorce 5. 'Mixed Syndicate': Poetics of Fabric under Occupation 6. Reading Past Freyre: Disembodied Miscegenation Bibliography