TY - BOOK ID - 30090836 TI - Rhetorics of belonging : nation, narration, and Israel/Palestine PY - 2013 SN - 9781846319433 9781781385739 1781381046 1781385734 1781386080 1846319439 9781781386088 9781781381045 PB - Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, DB - UniCat KW - History KW - Politics. KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Annals KW - E-books KW - Jewish-Arab relations in literature. KW - Israeli literature KW - Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. KW - Arab-Israeli conflict -- Literature and the conflict. KW - Hebrew literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. KW - Israeli literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. KW - Palestine -- In literature. KW - Jewish-Arab relations in literature KW - Literature and the conflict. KW - Literature and the conflict KW - Palestine. KW - Hebrew literature, Modern KW - Israeli literature (Hebrew) KW - Arab-Israeli conflict in literature KW - Israel-Arab conflicts in literature KW - Holy Land KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Arabic literature KW - Hebrew literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Palestine KW - In literature. KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures KW - Jews KW - Jewish literature KW - Israel-Arab conflicts KW - Israel-Palestine conflict KW - Israeli-Arab conflict KW - Israeli-Palestinian conflict KW - Jewish-Arab relations KW - Palestine-Israel conflict KW - Palestine problem (1948- ) KW - Palestinian-Israeli conflict KW - Palestinian Arabs KW - History and criticism KW - Literature KW - Arab-Israeli conflict. KW - Literature. KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Allegory KW - Arabs KW - Israeli–Palestinian conflict KW - Israelis KW - Palestinians KW - Rhetoric KW - State of Palestine KW - Zionism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30090836 AB - 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to most foreign observers, which means that literary texts that make it into circulation abroad tend to be received as historical documents rather than aesthetic artefacts.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. It considers writers whose work is rarely discussed together, offering new readings of the work of Edward Said, Amos Oz, Mourid Barghouti, Orly Castel-Bloom, Sahar Khalifeh, and Anton Shammas. This book helps to restore the category of the nation to contemporary literary criticism by attending to a context where the idea of the nation is so central a part of everyday experience that writers cannot not address it, and readers cannot help but read for it. It also points a way toward a relational literary history of Israel/Palestine, one that would situate Palestinian and Israeli writing in the context of a history of antagonistic interaction. The book's findings are relevant not only for scholars working in postcolonial studies and Israel/Palestine studies, but for anyone interested in the difficult and unpredictable intersections of literature and politics. ER -