Drew Paul

Israel/Palestine

Border Representations in Literature and Film

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781474456135
• ISBN-10: 1474456138
• Artikelnr.: 62213000

Autorenporträt

Drew Paul is an Assistant Professor of Arabic at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His work appeared in a number of key journals, including The Journal of Arabic Literature, Alif, and Scritture Migranti/Migrant Writings. Israel/Palestine is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translation and Transliteration
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Excess, Illusion and the Border
Part I: Expanding Borders
2. Return to the Border: Commitment, Utopia, and the Inescapable Green Line
3. Sayed Kashua, the Palestinian Hebrew Novel, and the Failure of Coexistence
Part II: Deceptive Borders
4. Border Crossings and Stray Narratives of Return
5. Does the Camera Lie? Or, How to Document the Wall
6. The Illusion of the One-Way Mirror: Filming the Checkpoint in Divine Intervention
7. Conclusion: Physical and Fictional Borders
Bibliography
Filmography.