PRIVATE AFFECTIONS: MISCEGENATION AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE【翻译】-CSDN博客

Cohen, Hella Bloom, Private Affections: Miscegenation and the Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine. Doctor of Philosophy (English), May 2014, 188 pp., references, 133 titles.
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.
Copyright 2014 by
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For his unending encouragement and encyclopedic mentorship, I thank my director, Dr. Masood Ashraf Raja. For her constant guidance and heartfelt support, I thank my first doctoral advisor and current committee member, Dr. Needleman Armintor. I also extend my deepest thanks to my committee members, Dr. Nicole D. Smith and Dr. Laila Amine, for their intellectual inspiration and rigorous examination of my work. This project would not have come to fruition without them, nor without the generous work-shopping support of my writing group members and fellow graduate cohorts, Dr. Amanda Kellogg and soon-to-be-doctor Lindsay Moore.
An additional thanks is due to my wonderful and sundry family—the Wolberses, Blooms, Denglers, Sosins, Cohens and Burnses. And how can I say enough to thank Michael Patrick Cohen? In a word, thank you, Mikey, for the love and logic.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS........................................................................................................... iii
1. INTRODUCTION: PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI LITERATURE AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES: AN UNEASY RELATIONSHIP ......................................................................1
2. ENEMIES, LOVERS, SLAVES: READING FREYRE IN THE HOLY LAND.....................22
3. ENEMIES, LOVERS, STRANGERS: DARWISH’S ‘RITA’ ..................................................60
4. ENEMIES, LOVERS, WIVES: INTERNAL MISCEGENATION IN A. B. YEHOSHUA’S A LATE DIVORCE................................................................................................................93
5. ENEMIES, LOVERS, OCCUPIERS: POETICS OF FABRIC UNDER OCCUPATION.....126
6. CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................168
APPENDIX: BEAUTIFUL ISRAELI WOMEN SOLDIERS ....................................................174
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................176