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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457365603321

Autore

Alcalay Ammiel

Titolo

After Jews and Arabs [[electronic resource] ] : remaking Levantine culture / / Ammiel Alcalay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8166-8468-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

305.892/4

306.09394

Soggetti

Jews - Civilization - Arab influences

Jewish-Arab relations

Sephardim - Intellectual life

Jews, Oriental - Israel - Intellectual life

Middle Eastern literature - History and criticism

Jewish literature - Middle East - History and criticism

Israeli literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Israel Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.