Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada

ISBN-13: 9781474499736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Ned Curthoys;Isabelle Hesse

Opis

This edited collection brings together discussions of literary works from Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian and Jewish Diasporas, as well as from authors not directly involved who are seeking to unpack the conflict's complexities for a wider audience. It offers new perspectives into how the Palestine/Israel conflict is, and can be, represented after the Second Palestinian Intifada, an epochal event for both Israelis and Palestinians.The collection foregrounds the thematic concerns that link literary engagements with Palestine/Israel across the globe but also examines the role that aesthetic representation plays in framing the conflict and its power dynamics. As such, the contributors address how emergent forms of writing and representation illuminate but also re-describe conflict in the context of Israel and Palestine and how depicting this conflict has had reverberations for representing conflict and conflict zones more widely.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Ned Curthoys and Isabelle Hesse; Part 1: The Aesthetics of Occupation; 1. The Severed Limb: Relational Life-Writing Against Techno-Biopolitical Violence in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats With Me, Rita Sakr; 2. Daily Encounters: Diary Writing and the Politics of the Mundane in Occupied Palestine, Hiyem Cheurfa; 3. American Palestinian Women as Public Intellectuals: New Narratives of Resistance, Sahar Al-Shoubaki; 4. The Palestinian Rebel: Liberty and Statehood in Literature, Jumana Bayeh; 5. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict in To the End of the Land: Some Thoughts on David Grossman’s Hebrew in Translation, Niva Kaspi; Part 2: Repurposing Form: Reimagining the Conflict Outside of Palestine/Israel; 6. ‘Public Confession’ in Palestinian Literary Self-Narratives after the Second Intifada, Aarushi Punia; 7. Detectives in Bethlehem: Crime Fiction in the Occupied Territories, Anastasia Valassopoulos; 8. Reframing Occupation After the Second Intifada: Drawing from Experience in Francophone Graphic Novels, Lowry Martin; 9. Coming of Age in Graphic Novels Representing the Palestine/Israel Conflict, Ned Curthoys; 10. The Palestine/Israel Conflict in the Young Adult Anglophone Bildungsroman, Isabelle Hesse; 11. Feeding Words with Sugar: Resurrecting Palestine in Children's Picture Books from Egypt, Magda Hasabelnaby and Radwa R. Mahmoud; Afterword, Anna Bernard; Works Cited; Index.