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Inextricably Bonded:
Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-visioning Culture Rachel Feldhay
Brenner |
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"Rachel Feldhay
Brenner presents a brilliant comparison of texts, but more important, she
suggests a model of interpretation and interrelation that can be applied to
other literatures and other conflicts."
Nili Gold, Despite the tragic reality of the
continuing Israeli-Arab conflict and deep-rooted beliefs that the chasm
between Israeli Arabs is unbridgeable, this book affirms the bonds between
the two communities. Rachel Feldhay Brenner
demonstrates that the literatures of both ethnic groups defy the ideologies
that have obstructed dialogue between the two peoples. Brenner argues that literary
critics have ignored the variety and the dissent in the novels of both Arab
and Jewish writers in Drawing upon the theories of
Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Emanuel
Levinas, and others, Inextricably Bonded
is an innovative and illuminating examination of literary dissent from
dominant ideology. Rachel Feldhay
Brenner is
professor of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Writing as Resistance,
Assimilation and Assertion, and A.M. Klein, the Father of
Canadian Jewish Literature. |
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