The Rhetoric of Violence: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Contemporary Palestinian Literature and Film

✍ Scribed by Kamal Abdel-Malek (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Despite the urgent need to develop understandings of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the light of the current situation in the Middle East, the role of violence and reconciliation in Palestinian and Israeli literature and film has received only brief treatment. This book is intended to fill that void; that is to explore how Israelis and Palestinians view and depict themselves and each other in situations that lead to either violence or reconciliation, and the ways in which both parties define themselves in relation to one another. The book examines selected Palestinian and Israeli literary works and a small number of films and their tacit assumptions about Israeli Jews. It will attempt to look at, among other questions a) is violence perceived as a means of empowerment, b) is there connection between imaginary violence in literature and actual violence, and what is the nature of the association between creative writers and violence? (eg. popular writer Ghassan Kanafani who is also a spokesman for the violent PFLP).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Chronology of Modern Palestinian History....Pages 9-16
Chronology of Modern Israeli History....Pages 17-19
Strangers at Home....Pages 21-33
Exile and Life on Border Lines....Pages 35-63
Encounters and Moments of Breakthrough....Pages 65-94
The Feminine Connection: Palestinian Women Writers on War and Reconciliation....Pages 95-113
Reel Encounters: Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews in Film....Pages 115-141
Conclusion....Pages 143-152
Back Matter....Pages 153-231

✦ Subjects

Middle Eastern Literature; Film History; History of the Middle East; Film and Television Studies; Literary History; Applied Linguistics