Ebook: Poetic Trespass : Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine
Author: Levy Lital
- Tags: Israeli literature -- History and criticism. Arabic literature -- Israel -- History and criticism. Arabic literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism. Jews -- Israel -- Identity. Palestinian Arabs -- Israel -- Identity. Arab-Israeli conflict. LITERARY CRITICISM / African SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- City: Princeton
- Language: English
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A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In Poetic Trespass, Lital Levy brings together such startling visions to offer the first in-depth study of the relationship between Read more...
Abstract: A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In Poetic Trespass, Lital Levy brings together such startling visions to offer the first in-depth study of the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the literature and culture of Israel/Palestine. More than that, she presents a captivating portrait of the literary imagination's power to transgress political