Israeli and Palestinian Postcards: Presentations of National Self

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Notes Introduction: The Presentation of National Self 1. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 2d ed. Other notable works that examine identity in specific print capitalist media, in reference to the Middle East, include Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Arab Comic Strips; Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity; Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema; and Linda Steet, Veils and Daggers. 2. Rose breaks discourse analysis methodology into two possible approaches. Discourse Analysis I pays attention to the notion of discourse as articulated through visual images. Discourse Analysis II looks at the issues of power, regimes of truth, institutions , and technologies in relation to visual images. This book follows his suggestion of combining methodologies so that ‘‘a richly detailed picture of images’ significance [can] be developed, and in particular it can shed interesting light on the contradictory meanings an image may articulate.’’ Gillian Rose, Visual Methodologies, pp. 135–186, 202 [quote from p. 202]. 3. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Behavior in Public Places. 205 Tseng 2003.12.9 08:24 6951 Semmerling / ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN POSTCARDS / sheet 227 of 255 4. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self, pp. 3–4. 5. Jonathan Culler, ‘‘The Semiotics of Tourism,’’ American Journal of Semiotics 1 (1–2): 133. 6. William M. O’Barr, Culture and the Ad, p. 93. 7. Dean MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, p. 16. 8. Gordon W. Allport, The Nature of Prejudice, pp. 190–192. 9. Richard Bauman and Charles L. Briggs, ‘‘Poetics and Performance as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life,’’ Annual Review of Anthropology 19 (1990): 73–76. 10. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture, pp. 81, 175. 11. Similar to the idea of Mauss. Marcel Mauss, The Gift, trans. W. D. Halls. 12. Tagg uses a great example of this point. He suggests that even a photograph of the Loch Ness Monstercan become factual when it conforms intertextually. JohnTagg, The Burden of Representation, p. 5. 13. Annelies Moors and Steven Machlin, ‘‘Postcards of Palestine,’’ Critique of Anthropology 7 (2): 61–77. 14. Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora. 15. Annelies Moors, ‘‘Presenting Palestine’s Population: Premonitions of the Nakba,’’ MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 1 (May 2001): 21–22. 16. ‘‘Right to narrate’’ is a term borrowed from Edward W. Said, The Politics of Dispossession , pp. 247–268. 17. Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, Sign Wars, p. v. 18. Peter L. Bergerand Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, p. 110. 19. Lev Bearfield, ‘‘The Nation’s Family Album,’’ Jerusalem Post, January 2, 1985, p. 5. 1. Palphot’s Israeli Self 1. Lev Bearfield, ‘‘The Nation’s Family Album,’’ Jerusalem Post, January 2, 1985, p. 5. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid. 4. John Berger et al., Ways of Seeing, p. 8. 5. Malcolm Andrews, The Search for the Picturesque, pp. viii, 6, 68–71, 239–240. 6. James R. Ryan, Picturing Empire, pp. 13–26. 7. William M. O’Barr, Culture and the Ad, pp. 2–4. 8. Cited in Edward Said, The Politics of Dispossession, p. 34. 9. Richard Waswo, The Founding Legend of Western Civilization. 10. Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots, p. 28. 11. Akiva Orr provides interesting insight into the meaning of Zionism’s Jewish nation and its claimed right to self-determination. He points out that Zionism looked, 206 : : Notes to Pages 2–17 Tseng 2003.12.9 08:24 6951 Semmerling / ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN POSTCARDS / sheet 228 of 255 and continues its look, to create a nation of a Jewish majority. Akiva Orr, Israel: Politics, Myths, and Identity Crises, pp. 123–138. 12. New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, s.v. ‘‘Zionism, History of.’’ 13. Jeremy Black, Maps and Politics, pp. 88–89. 14. Ibid., p. 12. 15. Ibid., p. 96. 16. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, pp. xx–xxi. 17. Black, Maps and Politics, p. 113. 18. Ben-Yehuda (1857–1922) was a pioneer in restoring Hebrew as a living language. He was a founder of the Hebrew Language Council. Mitchell Cohen, Zion and State, pp. 55–57. 19. Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, trans. G. A. Williamson, pp. 387–408. 20. Yigael Yadin, Masada, trans. Moshe Pearlman, p. 16. 21. Zerubavel, Recovered Roots, pp. 60–76, 192–213. 22. Orr, Israel: Politics, Myths, and Identity Crises, pp. 8–28. 23. Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema, pp. 27–53. 24. New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, s.v...