The Quest for a Lost Identity. Palestinian Fiction in Israel

Name: The Quest for a Lost Identity. Palestinian Fiction in Israel
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By Mahmud Ghanayim

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Arabic fiction by Palestinian writers in Israel underwent a rebirth with the establishment of the State in 1948¿¿¿an event affecting not only the land that had been Palestine, but the entire region.In The Quest for a Lost Identity, Mahmud Ghanayim probes in considerable detail this creative process over the last half-century. Adopting a strictly literary treatment of the new situation, he reconstructs the various stages in the evolution of Palestinian literature and its difficult existence under martial law. Perusing works by such writers as Hann¿ 'Ibr¿h¿m 'At¿ll¿h Man¿¿r, Müammad 'Al¿ T¿h¿, Tawf¿q Fayy¿¿, Müammad Naff¿', N¿j¿' ¿¿hir, Riy¿¿ Baydas, and others he highlights the efficacity of ideologically-driven literary criticism monitoring the direction and literary strategies underlying the cultural revival generated by this national minority.The author of this penetrating monograph deftly etches the new Palestinian self-image emerging from this literary rebirth with its ardent ambition to create an esthetically-inspired rather politically-monitored literature. Perhaps no Palestinian writer of calibre exemplified better than Emile H·ab¿-b¿- the aspiration to break away from the grip of local cultural conventions to achieve artistic modernity. In effect, this doyen of Palestinian literature succeeded in meeting the expectations of three highly demanding readerships comprising the local Arab minority, the Jews, and the Arab world outside Israel.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 176
Release Date:: 2008-05-01
Publication Date:: 2008-05-01
Publisher:: Harrassowitz Verlag
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 3447057688
ISBN13:: 9783447057684
Weight:: 346 g
Height:: 170 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 13 cm

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