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    Despite the tragic reality of the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict and deep-rooted beliefs that the chasm between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs is unbridgeable, this book affirms the bonds between the two communities. Rachel Feldhay Brenner demonstrates that the literatures of both ethnic groups defy the ideologies that have obstructed dialogue between the two peoples.
    Brenner argues that literary critics have ignored the variety and the dissent in the novels of both Arab and Jewish writers in Israel, giving them interpretations that embrace the politics of exclusion and conform with Zionist ideology. Brenner offers insightful new readings that compare fiction by Jewish writers Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, and others with fiction written in Hebrew by such Arab-Israeli writers as Atallah Mansour, Emile Habiby, and Anton Shammas. This parallel analysis highlights the moral and psychological dilemmas faced by both the Jewish victors and the Arab vanquished, and Brenner suggests that the hope for release from the historical trauma lies—on both sides—in reaching an understanding with and of the adversary.
    Drawing upon the theories of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Emanuel Levinas, and others, Inextricably Bonded is an innovative and illuminating examination of literary dissent from dominant ideology.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-
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  1. Prologue: Israeli Literatures and Their Presence in Zionist Culture
  2. pp. 3-17
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  1. Part 1. Zionism and the Discourses of Negation: Is Post-Zionism Really “Post”?
  1. Introduction: Toward Rediscovery of the Present in the Past
  2. pp. 19-26
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  1. Chapter 1. Zionist Voices of Dissent: Ahad Ha’Am and Martin Buber
  2. pp. 27-50
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  1. Chapter 2. The Zionists: Colonized Colonizers
  2. pp. 51-73
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  1. Chapter 3. The Land as Homeland?
  2. pp. 74-81
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  1. Part 2. Dissenting Literatures and the Literary Canon
  1. Introduction: Modern Hebrew Literature and Its Ideological Boundaries
  2. pp. 83-87
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  1. Chapter 4. Israeli Jewish Fiction of Dissent, Its Writers, and the Canon
  2. pp. 88-110
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  1. Chapter 5. Israeli Arab Fiction and the Mainstream: Dissent and Strategies of Canonization
  2. pp. 111-132
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  1. Chapter 6. The Canon and the “True Heart of Europe”
  2. pp. 133-137
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  1. Part 3. Discourses of Bonding
  1. Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of History
  2. pp. 139-152
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  1. Chapter 7. The Traumas of Victory and Defeat: S. Yizhar’s “Hirbet Hizah” and Emile Habiby’s Pessoptimist
  2. pp. 153-172
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  1. Chapter 8. Bonds of Confession: A. B. Yehoshua’s “Facing the Forests” and Atallah Mansour’s In a New Light
  2. pp. 173-205
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  1. Chapter 9. Descent into Barbarism: Amos Oz’s “Nomad and Viper”
  2. pp. 206-220
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  1. Chapter 10. Melancholia and Telos: Amos Oz’s My Michael and Emile Habiby’s Saraya, Daughter of the Ghoul
  2. pp. 221-247
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  1. Chapter 11. Tales That Ought to Be Told: David Grossman’s Smile of the Lamb and Anton Shammas’s Arabesques
  2. pp. 248-283
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  1. Epilogue: Longing for Hope
  2. pp. 284-290
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 291-324
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 325-338
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 339-349
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