Private affections: Miscegenation and the literary imagination in Israel-Palestine
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Hella Bloom Cohen
Raja, Masood Ashraf
University of North Texas
2014
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-64087-8
Ph.D.
University of North Texas
2014
This study politicizes the mixed relationship in Israeli-Palestinian literature. I examine Arab-Jewish and interethnic Jewish intimacy in works by Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish, canonical Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua, select anthologized Anglophone and translated Palestinian and Israeli poetry, and Israeli feminist writer Orly Castel-Bloom. I also examine the material cultural discourses issuing from Israel's textile industry, in which Arabs and Jews interact. Drawing from the methodology of twentieth-century Brazilian miscegenation theorist Gilberto Freyre, I argue that mixed intimacies in the Israeli-Palestinian imaginary represent a desire to restructure a hegemonic public sphere in the same way Freyre's Brazilian mestizo was meant to rhetorically undermine what he deemed a Western cult of uniformity.
Modern literature; Literary translation; Arabs; Jews; Poetry; Literary criticism; Business; Politics; Middle Eastern studies; Feminism; British & Irish literature
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Ethnic relations;Interracial romance;Intimacy;Israel;Palestine;Post-colonialism