Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature

by Kamal Abdel-Malek (Editor), Kamal Abdel-Malek (Editor)

In this groundbreaking volume, scholars from the fields of literature, history, political science, and sociology come together to exchange new insights on the Arab-Israeli conflict. They examine how events in the region since the 1940s have affected Israeli and Palestinian concepts of identity, on either side of the cease-fire lines of 1949 and in exile communities in the region and abroad. As the Palestinian poet Fawaz Turki says, "History and history-making is everyone’s milieu in our part of the world," and the contributors reveal the extent to which politics and history inform the Israeli and Palestinian literary imagination.

214 pages, Hardcover

First published September 4, 1999

About the author

Kamal Abdel-Malek is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University.