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Abjection
Aliyah
Amalek
Ambivalence
AMIT
Anonymity
Anton Shammas
Arab Jews
Arabs
Ari Shavit
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Chutzpah
Codependency
Colonialism
Constantine P. Cavafy
Cover-up
Criticism
Darwish
Deleuze and Guattari
Deterritorialization
Edward Said
Elie Kedourie
Ella Shohat
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Exclusion
Fawaz
Haskalah
Ibn Kathir
Ideology
Imperialism
Irony
Israelis
Jews
Joseph Massad
Judaism
Language policy
Law of Return
Margaret Larkin
Mizrahi Jews
Monoculturalism
Narrative
New antisemitism
Opportunism
Orientalism
Originality
Orthodox Judaism
Palestinian nationalism
Palestinian refugees
Palestinians
Pretext
Reactionary
Repressed memory
Ressentiment
S. Yizhar
Sayed Kashua
Secularism
Self-image
Separatism
Shlomo
Sovereignty
Subjectivity
Superiority (short story)
The Colonizer and the Colonized
The Other Hand
Tom Segev
Uri Davis
Western thought
Writing
Yair Auron
Yaron Tsur
Ze'ev
Zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9780691128757
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Gil Z. Hochberg is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
