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The Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine

Orientalism, Poetry, and Biopolitics

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Postcolonialism and Religions (PCR)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Reading Freyre in the Holy Land

    • Hella Bloom Cohen
    Pages 21-59
  3. “The Synthetic Principle”

    • Hella Bloom Cohen
    Pages 61-86
  4. “Intimate Histories”

    • Hella Bloom Cohen
    Pages 87-115
  5. “Mixed Syndicate”

    • Hella Bloom Cohen
    Pages 117-151
  6. Reading Past Freyre

    • Hella Bloom Cohen
    Pages 153-176
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 177-210

About this book

This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and Israeli literature, poetry, and discourse. The relationship between nationalism and demographics are examined through the narrative and poetic intrigue of intimacy between Arabs and Jews, drawing from a range of theoretical perspectives, including public sphere theory, orientalism, and critical race studies. Revisiting the controversial Brazilian writer Gilberto Freyre, who championed miscegenation in his revisionary history of Brazil, the book deploys a comparative investigation of Palestinian and Israeli writers' preoccupation with the mixed romance. Author Hella Bloom Cohen offers new interpretations of works by Mahmoud Darwish, A.B. Yehoshua, Orly Castel-Bloom, Nathalie Handal, and Rula Jebreal, among others.

Reviews

'Attentive to political nuance, Hella Bloom Cohen makes a bold intervention in the current cultural debate surrounding Israel-Palestine, and does so through an innovative theoretical framework. This is an original, rigorous, and brave piece of scholarship.' - Anna Ball, Nottingham Trent University, UK

About the author

Hella Bloom Cohen is an assistant professor of English at St. Catherine University, USA. She previously held a visiting assistant professorship at Elon University, USA, and has published on material culture and global literature.

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