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This edited collection brings together discussions of literary works from Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian and Jewish Diasporas, as well as from authors and creators not directly involved with the conflict who are seeking to unpack its complexities for a wider audience. It offers new perspectives into how the Palestine/Israel conflict is, and can be, represented after the Second Palestinian Intifada, an epochal event for both Israelis and Palestinians. This collection foregrounds the thematic concerns that link literary engagements with Palestine/Israel across the globe but also examines the role that aesthetic representation plays in framing the conflict and its power dynamics.

Arab-Israeli conflict --- Arab-Israeli conflict in literature --- Israel-Arab conflicts in literature --- Literature and the conflict. --- Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000 --- -Literature and the conflict. --- Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005. --- Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005

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Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that war. Each passing year, he says, dulls our sense of immediacy about Vietnam's costs, opening wider the temptation to make it something more necessary, neatly contained, and justifiable than it should ever become. Here Beidler draws on deeply personal memories to reflect on the war's lingering aftereffects and the shallow, evasive ways we deal with them. Beidler brings back the war he knew in chapters on its vocabulary, music, literature, and film. His catalog of soldier slang reveals how finely a tour of Vietnam could hone one's sense of absurdity. His survey of the war's pop hits looks for meaning in the soundtrack many veterans still hear in their heads. Beidler also explains how "Viet Pulp" literature about snipers, tunnel rats, and other hard-core types has pushed aside masterpieces like Duong Thu Huong's Novel without a Name. Likewise we learn why the movie The Deer Hunter doesn't "get it" about Vietnam but why Platoon and We Were Soldiers sometimes nearly do. As Beidler takes measure of his own wartime politics and morals, he ponders the divergent careers of such figures as William Calley, the army lieutenant whose name is synonymous with the civilian massacre at My Lai, and an old friend, poet John Balaban, a conscientious objector who performed alternative duty in Vietnam as a schoolteacher and hospital worker. Beidler also looks at Vietnam alongside other conflicts-including the war on international terrorism. He once hoped, he says, that Vietnam had fractured our sense of providential destiny and geopolitical invincibility but now realizes, with dismay, that those myths are still with us. "Americans have always wanted their apocalypses," writes Beidler, "and they have always wanted them now."

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Influence. --- Literature and the conflict. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Music and the conflict.

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Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders.

History --- Israel-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949 --- -Israel-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949 --- -Boundaries in literature. --- Boundaries in motion pictures. --- Literature and the conflict. --- Motion pictures and the conflict.

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Arguing that Palestine has come to signify the colonial, broadly conceived, in the decolonizing world, this book offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years.

North African literature --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Colonies in literature. --- Arab-Israeli conflict in literature --- Israel-Arab conflicts in literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the conflict. --- Palestine --- In literature. --- Sociology of culture --- National movements --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- Colonies in literature --- History and criticism --- Literature and the conflict

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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 --- Bibliography --- Literature and the conflict --- Bibliographie --- Littérature et guerre --- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 --- Littérature et guerre --- Literature and the war --- Bibliography.