On rights, ruins and returns
Rachel Tzvia Back's Israeli anglophone lyric palimpsest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179242 |
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| Authors | Morani Kornberg |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 253-268 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2018.1552617 |
| OpenAlex | W2906459785 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Written at the height of the Second Intifada, Israeli anglophone poet Rachel Tzvia Back’s On Ruins & Return uncovers the politics of Palestinian indigeneity and the material realities of occupation. Back evokes the near-extinct buffalo and crafts a “lyric palimpsest” to draw a line between settler colonialism in North America and Israel–Palestine. This article offers an overview of the understudied field of Israeli anglophone literature and its affinity to postcolonial and global anglophone discourses through an examination of Back’s transnational mobility, the role of English as a colonial-turned-global language in Israel–Palestine, the architectural legacy of British colonialism in Jerusalem, and anti-colonial resistance. The article analyses Back’s postcolonial lyric palimpsest in terms of its form, theme, authorial voice and audience, and argues that English-language writing challenges Israeli nationalism, while simultaneously underscoring the ongoing repercussions of colonialism
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Literature · Nationalism · Palestine · Palimpsest · Political science · Politics · Postcolonial literature · Postcolonialism (international relations · Sociology · Theme (computing · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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