Title After Jews and Arabs : remaking Levantine culture / Ammiel Alcalay

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 336 pages) Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: Charting the Terrain; 1. Discontinued Lines: Drafts for an Itinerary; 2. A Garden Enclosed: The Geography of Time; 3. History's Noise: The Beginning of the End; 4. Postscript: ""To end, to begin again""; Notes; Index Summary By exposing the rich and diverse textual and cultural legacy of this time and space, Alcalay reassesses the exclusion of Semitic culture in Europe from the perspective of contemporary Arabic culture and opposing images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This book will compel a revision of Jewish studies by placing contemporary Israeli culture within its Middle Eastern context and the terms of colonial, postcolonial, and multicultural discourse Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-322) and index Notes Print version record Subject Jews -- Civilization -- Arab influences. Jewish-Arab relations. Sephardim -- Intellectual life Mizrahim -- Israel -- Intellectual life Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism Jewish literature -- Middle East -- History and criticism Israeli literature -- History and criticism SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Intellectual life. Israeli literature. Jewish-Arab relations. Jewish literature. Jews -- Civilization -- Arab influences. Mizrahim -- Intellectual life. Middle Eastern literature. Sephardim -- Intellectual life. SUBJECT Israel -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98008017 Subject Israel. Middle East. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816684687 0816684685

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