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Israel/Palestine
Border Representations in Literature and Film
by Drew Paul
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Book Presentation:
Explores how the expansion of border spaces shaped contemporary Palestinian and Israeli literature and film
• Analyses both literature and film, in Arabic and Hebrew
• Examines the cultural impact of expanding border spaces (checkpoints and walls) in the post-Oslo period
• Considers how border spaces have affected both form and genre
• Argues that literary and filmic engagement with borders reveals their deceptive qualities and contests their power
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.
Focusing on the works of Elia Suleiman, Raba’i al-Madhoun, Ghassan Kanafani, Sami Michael and Sayed Kashua, it traces how political engagement in literature and film has shifted away from previously common paradigms of resistance and coexistence and has become reorganised around these now ubiquitous physical barriers. Depictions of these borders interrogate the notion that such spaces are impenetrable and unbreakable, imagine distinct forms of protest, and redefine the relationship between cultural production and political engagement.
About the Author:
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.
Press Reviews:
Israel/Palestine offers an important contribution to the evergrowing literature on borders and border cultures. Focusing on Israeli and Palestinian cinematic and literary representations of borders, Paul revisits the figure of the border as both a physical device of immense and grave consequences, and as a fictional site of collective imagination open to destabilization. Exploring this double nature of the border, this well written and insightful book manages to advance a much needed cultural and political perspective -- at once sober and optimistic!– Gil Z. Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Columbia University, New York, NY
[...] a crucial addition to Israeli-Palestinian cultural scholar>ship. It provides a significant resource to anyone researching post-colonial studies, cultural studies, and peace and conflict studies.– Yue Han, SOAS, IJMES
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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