Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-Visioning Culture

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339 Index African literature, 92–93, 113–14, 141 Agreement, Oslo, 102–3, 284 Ahad Ha’Am: Berdyczewski and, 30–32; concerns expressed by, 28–30, 33–36; critique of Zionism by, 20; Eretz Israel as spiritual entity, 29–30; Herzl and, 56; morality and ethics, political Zionism and, 27–29; resistance to tenets of exclusion, 25–26; Zionism and, 83 aliyah, settler’s experiences, 61–67 Alon, Yig’al, 113 Althusser, Louis, 229, 240 Altneuland (Herzl), 7, 67 angel of history, 223–25, 238, 243–44 Angelus Novus (Klee), 223–25 anti-Semitism, 55, 58–59; attributed to Arabs , 62, 64–65, 212–13; the Crusades and, 181; Jews as anti-Semitic, 72 apartheid, 141 Arabesques (Shammas), 109, 112, 120– 21; authorial empowerment, 280; authorship ambiguities, 253, 273–74, 281; autobiographical form in, 273–74, 281; critical reception of works, 124–28; dialogic interactions, 261, 282–83; identity in, 248, 261, 267–68, 274–77, 281; multiple roles in, 281; names, 248, 276; narrative structure of, 248–49; parallel story patterns in, 282; reader as spectator , 246; rejection of the father’s legacy, 255; split identity in, 274–75, 281; synopsis of, 248–49; Zionist identity in, 267–68 Arabic: as forgotten language, 202; Habiby ’s use of, 128–29 Arabs: as anti-Semitic, 62, 64–65, 212– 13; as ghosts, 148; identification of Zionists with native Arabs, 75–76; identity of Israeli Arabs, 106, 273, 283; incorporation into Hebrew identity, 70; as objects of desire, 188, 216–18; as Other, 142; resistance to ideological cooptation , 208, 214; romanticized or sentimentalized , 76; as thieves, 75, 213; as threat to Zionist “return,” 140. See also Arabs, as fictional characters; Arabs, negation of; Israeli Arab writers Arabs, as fictional characters, 60, 286; in Arabesques, 274, 275–76, 279–81; demonized and dehumanized, 212–13, 258; in In a New Light, 200–201; as metaphors of Jewish psyche, 97, 99– 100, 206–7; as mirror of identity, 65; the mute in “Facing the Forests,” 178– 79, 183; as servile, 200–201, 257; in The Smile of the Lamb, 249–50; subjectivity of, 207; as universalized victim, 97, 141–42, 143, 206; in Yehoshua’s works, 107–8, 109, 142 Arabs, negation of, 19; by aliya pioneers, 35; Alon on Palestinian literature, 113; in Arabesques, 275–76; “empty land” and, 79; in “Hirbet Hizah,” 258; Meir on Palestinians, 113; in The Smile of the Lamb, 258. See also “empty land” concept; invisibility of the Arab 340 Index Aran, Gideon, 74 Ardon, Ora, 132 assimilation of Arabs into Hebrew culture , 70 asymbolia, loss of meaning, 232–33 Attridge, Derek, 92–93 audience: as antagonist, 161–62, 165, 169–70; for Arab story, 160–61; for “Hirbet Hizah,” 158–59; as spectator, 246; translation and, 90 authorial subjectivity, 162, 169, 172, 194 authority, European identity and, 65 authors and authorship: in Arabesques, 253, 273–74, 280, 281; authorial subjectivity , 162, 169, 172, 194; autobiography as transformative, 154 autobiography: as fictional form, 239; as form in Arabesques, 249; as form of In a New Light, 194; as genre, 153; “Hirbet Hizah” as autobiographical, 153– 54, 158–59; The Pessoptimist as autobiographical , 159; Saraya as autobiographical , 222–23; as transformative, 154 Bahir, Yona, 132 Baker, Khawla Abu, 287–88 Bauman, Zygmunt, 261, 262–63, 271 being and meaning, 232, 237–38 being-for-the-other, 166, 261–62 Ben-Gurion, David, 31; Britain and, 52– 53; as fictional character, 119; the Jewish claim to the land, 51–52; socialism and, 56 Benjamin, Walter: angel of history, 141, 223–25, 238, 243–44; erasure of history , 160, 175, 208; on generational relationships , 260–61; history of the victim , 140–41, 144, 160; responsibility of historians, 139, 140; secret agreement between generations, 252, 260–61; on victory and victor’s history, 146, 160, 208 Berdyczewski, Micha Josef, 30–32, 83; Canaanite movement, 69 Berkowitz, Michael, 71 Bhabha, Homi, 53–54, 70 bi-ethnic literature, 4 binationalism, 37–38, 57 Bishara, Azmi, 142–43 blindness, 218–20 bondage relationships: Ahad Ha’Am and slave mentality of Jews, 48; Hegel’s theory of, 166–67, 201, 259; love objects and, 215–17; Saeed in The Pessoptimist , 166–67 bonding, 13; context for, 247; poetry as bond, 254; storytelling as bonding experience , 249–51. See also father-son relationships Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel, 146, 191 Boshas, Heda, 125 Brenner, Yosef Haim: dialogic interactions in works, 62–64; against Diaspora Judaism , 68; “M’pinqas,” 61–67 Brinker, Menachem, 30 Brith Shalom, 38, 57 British...