Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures: Language, Literature, and Identity

✍ Scribed by Reuven Snir

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 464
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Part of a two-volume set, this volume examines the issues of commitment and hybridization in Arabic literature concentrating on Palestinian literature and Arab-Jewish culture and the interactions between them. Reuvin Snir studies the contribution of Palestinian literature and theatre to Palestinian nation-building, especially since the 1948 Nakba. Becoming an essential part of the vocabulary of Arab intellectuals and writers, since the 1950s commitment (iltizām) has been employed to indicate the necessity for a writer to convey a message rather than merely create an imaginative work for its own sake. As for hybridization, the author focuses on the role Jews have played in Arabic literature against the backdrop of their contribution to this literature since the pre-Islamic period, and in light of the gradual demise of Arab-Jewish culture in recent years. The blending of elements from different cultures is one of the major phenomena in Arabic literature, certainly in light of its relationship with Islam and its cultural heritage, which has been extending during the last one-and-half millennia.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Technical Notes
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction
Part I Occupation, Domination, and Commitment
Introduction
Chapter 1 Performance: In the Service of the Nation
Chapter 2 Commitment: Verse Drama and Resistance
Chapter 3 Chronicle: The Ongoing Nakba
Chapter 4 Bilingualism: Palestinians in Hebrew
Part II Hybridization, Exclusion, and Demise
Introduction
Chapter 5 Pluralism: Arabs of Mosaic Faith
Chapter 6 Spring: “We Were Like Those Who Dream” Spring: “We Were Like Those Who Dream”
Chapter 7 Demise: The Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 8 Identity: Inessential Solidarities
Epilog “Trailed Travellers”: Between Fiction, Meta-Fiction, and History
References
Index

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