Private Affections: Miscegenation and the Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine Metadata

Title

• Main Title Private Affections: Miscegenation and the Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine

Creator

• Author: Cohen, Hella Bloom
  Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

• Chair: Raja, Masood Ashraf
  Contributor Type: Personal
  Contributor Info: Major Professor
• Committee Member: Armintor, Deborah Needleman
  Contributor Type: Personal
• Committee Member: Smith, Nicole D.
  Contributor Type: Personal
• Committee Member: Amine, Laila
  Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

• Name: University of North Texas
  Place of Publication: Denton, Texas
  Additional Info: www.unt.edu

Date

• Creation: 2014-05

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: This study politicizes the mixed relationship in Israeli-Palestinian literature. I examine Arab-Jewish and interethnic Jewish intimacy in works by Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish, canonical Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua, select anthologized Anglophone and translated Palestinian and Israeli poetry, and Israeli feminist writer Orly Castel-Bloom. I also examine the material cultural discourses issuing from Israel’s textile industry, in which Arabs and Jews interact. Drawing from the methodology of twentieth-century Brazilian miscegenation theorist Gilberto Freyre, I argue that mixed intimacies in the Israeli-Palestinian imaginary represent a desire to restructure a hegemonic public sphere in the same way Freyre’s Brazilian mestizo was meant to rhetorically undermine what he deemed a Western cult of uniformity. This project constitutes a threefold contribution. I offer one of the few postcolonial perspectives on Israeli literature, as it remains underrepresented in the field in comparison to its Palestinian counterparts. I also present the first sustained critique of the hetero relationship and the figure of the hybrid in Israeli-Palestinian literature, especially as I focus on its representation for political options rather than its aesthetic intrigue. Finally, I reexamine and apply Gilberto Freyre in a way that excavates him from critical interment and advocates for his global relevance.
• Physical Description: iv, 188 pages

Subject

• Keyword: Postcolonial
• Keyword: Israel-Palestine
• Keyword: romance
• Keyword: miscegenation
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Miscegenation in literature.
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Jewish-Arab relations in literature.
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Arabic literature -- History and criticism.
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Israeli literature -- History and criticism.
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Yehoshua, Abraham B. -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Castel-Bloom, Orly, 1960- -- Criticism and interpretation.

Coverage

• Place Name: Israel

Collection

• Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
  Code: UNTETD

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries
  Code: UNT

Rights

• Rights Access: public
• Rights Holder: Cohen, Hella Bloom
• Rights License: copyright
• Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

Resource Type

• Thesis or Dissertation

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc500171

Degree

• Academic Department: Department of English
• Degree Discipline: English
• Degree Level: Doctoral
• Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy
• Degree Grantor: University of North Texas
• Degree Publication Type: disse

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