Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine

by Anna Bernard

The crisis in Israel/Palestine has long been the worlds most visible military conflict. Yet the regions cultural and intellectual life remains all but unknown to most foreign observers, which means that literary texts that make it into circulation abroad tend to be received as historical documents rather than aesthetic artefacts. Rhetorics of Belonging examines the diverse ways in which Palestinian and Israeli world writers have responded to the expectation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846319439
• ISBN13: 9781846319433
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"