The Politics of Intertextuality in Anton Shmamas's Arabesques
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12709284 |
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| Authors | Michael Gluzman (Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 319-336 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-5886 • E-ISSN: 1472-5894 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1472588042000292385 |
| OpenAlex | W2049746802 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
How can an Israeli Arab writer participate in a Jewish literary tradition that perceives the writer as a biblical prophet, a “watchman unto the house of Israel”? This paper explores the ways in which Israeli-Arab writer Anton Shammas employs a poetics of intertextuality to carve out a space for himself in a language not fully his own. My reading of Shammas's 1986 novel Arabesques focuses on a paragraph in which Shammas alludes to, indeed rewrites, a passage from Bialik's “Habrekhah” (“The Pool”), widely considered one of the greatest ars poetic texts in Hebrew literature. In re-reading and rewriting Bialik from the margins of Israeli culture, Shammas makes a surprising use of this canonical poem by positioning it in a new context of identity politics. Through this intertextual practice, Shammas challenges the national and ethnic boundaries of Israeli culture
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Identity (music · Intertextuality · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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