Rhetorics of Belonging
Nation, Narration and Israel/Palestine
Author(s)
Bernard, Anna
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
103423Language
EnglishAbstract
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 world’s most visible military conflict. Yet the region’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to most foreign observers, which means that literary texts that make it into circulation abroad tend to be received as historical documents rather than aesthetic artefacts.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 ‘narrate’ the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a reading and writing practice.
Keywords
History; Allegory; Arabs; Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Israelis; Palestinians; Rhetoric; State of Palestine; ZionismISBN
9781846319433OCN
1038427395Publisher
Liverpool University PressPublisher website
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/Publication date and place
Liverpool, 2018-05-05Classification
History