![]() | In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination Subjects: Palestinian Arabs in literature; Israeli fiction -- History and criticism; Jewish-Arab relations in literature; Jews in literature; Arab-Israeli conflict in literature; Arabic fiction -- Palestine -- History and criticism; Zionism in literature; Israel --; Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" behind partition, Gil Hochberg demonstrates the ways in which works of contemporary Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism and instead display complex configurations of identity that emphasize the presence of alterity within the self--the Jew within the Arab, and the Arab within the Jew. In Spite of Partition examines Hebrew, Arabic, and French works that are largely unknown to English readers to reveal how, far from being independent, the signifiers "Jew" and "Arab" are inseparable. Gil Z. Hochberg is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
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