Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature
Author: Kamal Abdel-Malek
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1999-09-04
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312219789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this groundbreaking volume, scholars from the fields of literature, history, political science, and sociology come together to exchange new insights on the Arab-Israeli conflict. They examine how events in the region since the 1940s have affected Israeli and Palestinian concepts of identity, on either side of the cease-fire lines of 1949 and in exile communities in the region and abroad. As the Palestinian poet Fawaz Turki says, "History and history-making is everyone’s milieu in our part of the world," and the contributors reveal the extent to which politics and history inform the Israeli and Palestinian literary imagination.