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Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" behind partition, Gil Hochberg demonstrates the ways in which works of contemporary Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism and instead display complex configurations of identity that emphasize the presence of alterity within the self--the Jew within the Arab, and the Arab within the Jew. In Spite of Partition examines Hebrew, Arabic, and French works that are largely unknown to English readers to reveal how, far from being independent, the signifiers "Jew" and "Arab" are inseparable. In a series of original close readings, Hochberg analyzes fascinating examples of such inseparability. In the Palestinian writer Anton Shammas's Hebrew novel Arabesques, the Israeli and Palestinian protagonists are a "schizophrenic pair" who "have not yet decided who is the ventriloquist of whom." And in the Moroccan Jewish writer Albert Swissa's Hebrew novel Aqud, the Moroccan-Israeli main character's identity is uneasily located between the "Moroccan Muslim boy he could have been" and the "Jewish Israeli boy he has become." Other examples draw attention to the intricate linguistic proximity of Hebrew and Arabic, the historical link between the traumatic memories of the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakbah, and the libidinal ties that bind Jews and Arabs despite, or even because of, their current animosity.
Zionism in literature. --- Arabic fiction --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Jews in literature. --- Jewish-Arab relations in literature. --- Israeli fiction --- Palestinian Arabs in literature. --- Arab-Israeli conflict in literature --- Israel-Arab conflicts in literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the conflict. --- Israel --- Ethnic relations. --- History and criticism --- A. B. Yehoshua. --- AMIT. --- Abjection. --- Aliyah. --- Alterity. --- Amalek. --- Ambiguity. --- Ambivalence. --- Anonymity. --- Anton Shammas. --- Arab Jews. --- Arab citizens of Israel. --- Arabs. --- Ari Shavit. --- Azmi Bishara. --- Being and Nothingness. --- Biculturalism. --- Bishara. --- Chadash. --- Chutzpah. --- Codependency. --- Colonialism. --- Constantine P. Cavafy. --- Cover-up. --- Criticism. --- Dan Miron. --- Darwish. --- Deleuze and Guattari. --- Deterritorialization. --- Edward Said. --- Elie Kedourie. --- Ella Shohat. --- Ethnocentrism. --- Exclusion. --- Fawaz. --- Georges Bataille. --- Haskalah. --- Ibn Kathir. --- Ideology. --- Imperialism. --- Irony. --- Israelis. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jewish identity. --- Jews. --- Joseph Massad. --- Judaism. --- Judith Butler. --- Language policy. --- Law of Return. --- Liberalism. --- Literature. --- Ma'abarot. --- Margaret Larkin. --- Memoir. --- Metonymy. --- Mizrahi Jews. --- Monoculturalism. --- Narrative. --- National language. --- New antisemitism. --- Opportunism. --- Orientalism. --- Originality. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Palestinian nationalism. --- Palestinian refugees. --- Palestinians. --- Postmodernism. --- Pretext. --- Proverb. --- Racism. --- Reactionary. --- Repressed memory. --- Resistance movement. --- Ressentiment. --- S. Yizhar. --- Saree Makdisi. --- Sayed Kashua. --- Secularism. --- Self-image. --- Separatism. --- Shlomo. --- Shukri. --- Sovereignty. --- Subjectivity. --- Superiority (short story). --- Taunting. --- The Colonizer and the Colonized. --- The Other Hand. --- Tom Segev. --- Tommy Lapid. --- Uri Davis. --- Western thought. --- Writing. --- Yair Auron. --- Yaron Tsur. --- Yeshiva. --- Ze'ev. --- Zionism.
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In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an "event" of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it.
Postcolonialism in literature. --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Act of Violence. --- Alain Badiou. --- Alterity. --- Antithesis. --- Autobiography. --- Being and Nothingness. --- Caryl Phillips. --- Colonialism. --- Conceptualization (information science). --- Conscience. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Culture and Imperialism. --- Cynicism (contemporary). --- Decolonization. --- Dialectic. --- Diegesis. --- Disenchantment. --- Disgrace. --- Disgust. --- Dusklands. --- Edward Said. --- Emblem. --- Essay. --- Ethics. --- Exclusion. --- Explanation. --- Fiction. --- Frantz Fanon. --- Franz Kafka. --- G. (novel). --- Gilles Deleuze. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Henri Bergson. --- Humiliation. --- Ideology. --- Impossibility. --- In the Heart of the Country. --- Inseparability. --- Irony. --- J. M. Coetzee. --- Jean-Paul Sartre. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Kurtz (Heart of Darkness). --- Lag. --- Literature. --- Lord Jim. --- Michel Leiris. --- Minima Moralia. --- Modernity. --- Mrs. --- Nadine Gordimer. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Novelist. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Ontology. --- Pathos. --- Pessimism. --- Peter Hallward. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pier Paolo Pasolini. --- Poetry. --- Politics. --- Positivism. --- Postmodernism. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Primo Levi. --- Principle. --- Publication. --- Racism. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Samuel Beckett. --- Self-hatred. --- Seven Pillars of Wisdom. --- Shame. --- Slavery. --- Slow Man. --- Subaltern (postcolonialism). --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Symptom. --- T. E. Lawrence. --- Temporality. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Wretched of the Earth. --- Theodor W. Adorno. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- V. S. Naipaul. --- Vocation (poem). --- Writer. --- Writing.
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