Rhetorics of Belonging

Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine

Bibliographic Data

ID19925846
AuthorsAnna Bernard (0000-0001-7224-9436, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-10-14
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueRhetorics of Belonging (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/j.ctt5vjk1v
OpenAlexW4238246414
Open LibraryOL36215309M
ISBN9781781385739
LanguageEN
Citations received23

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 worldâ s most visible military conflict. Yet the regionâ 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to most foreign observers, which means that literary texts that make it into circulation abroad tend to be received as historical documents rather than aesthetic artefacts.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 â narrateâ the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a reading and writing practice

Sociology · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Arab-Israeli conflict · Arabic literature · Arabic literature, history and criticism · Hebrew literature · Hebrew literature, history and criticism · History · History and criticism · in literature · Israeli literature · Jewish-Arab relations in literature · Literature and the conflict · Modern Hebrew literature · Narration · National liberation & independence, post-colonialism

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