After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture

by Ammiel Alcalay

Book Overview

By exposing the rich and diverse textual and cultural legacy of this time and space, Alcalay reassesses the exclusion of Semitic culture in Europe from the perspective of contemporary Arabic culture and opposing images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This book will compel a revision of Jewish studies by placing contemporary Israeli culture within its Middle Eastern context and the terms of colonial, postcolonial, and multicultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816621551
• ISBN13: 9780816621552
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"