Manar H. Makhoul is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Minerva Humanities Center in Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Cambridge (2013). Manar holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Middle Eastern studies, and a bachelor degree in International Relations, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Research interests include Palestinian identity, literature, cultural and intellectual history.

Arguing that literature both reflects and contributes to shaping national discourse and identities, Manar Makhoul writes gracefully about the literature of the Palestinian citizens of Israel from a very informed and incisive point of view. This insightfully pioneering study brings to life texts that have been for long out of the public domain and attention, and finds in them qualities and features largely ignored by previous scholars.

• Introduction The Sociology of the Palestinians in IsraelLiterature and NationalismPalestinian LiteratureNotes1. Palestinian Novels in Israel, 1948−1967The 1948 War and Military RuleCaution and Adaptation in the Early YearsModernisation NovelsRe-evaluationConclusionNotes2. Postmodernisations, 1967−1987Counteraction NovelsCounter-ErasureReenchantment NovelsMissed OpportunityDoubly Contradictory IdentityIdentity, Space and TimePassage of TimeConclusion Notes3. Palestinian Novels in Israel, 1987−2010 − United by Alienation Nostalgic-Folkloric Novels Memory and the Folklorification of the Nakba Intifada NovelsNovels of PerplexityPalestinian Alienation in IsraelMutual Palestinian AlienationConclusionNotesReflections: Evolution of Palestinian Identity in IsraelBibliography