LEADER 03605nam 22006494a 450 001 9910777693603321 005 20230617010531.0 010 $a0-292-79749-4 024 7 $a10.7560/702141 035 $a(CKB)1000000000453899 035 $a(OCoLC)646761253 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245794 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000184308 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169959 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184308 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10201242 035 $a(PQKB)11188405 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443307 035 $a(OCoLC)60570087 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2066 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443307 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245794 035 $a(DE-B1597)587119 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797499 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000453899 100 $a20030529d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIsraeli and Palestinian postcards$b[electronic resource] $epresentations of national self /$fTim Jon Semmerling 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-70214-0 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction The Presentation of National Self -- $tOne Palphot?s Israeli Self -- $tTwo The Palestinian Self in Artwork Postcards -- $tThree The Janus-Faced Palestinian Self -- $tFour The Ecological Palestinian Self -- $tFive The Orientalized Area Self -- $tSix The Heritage-Enriched Palestinian Self -- $tConclusion Tom Sawyer, Visual Methodologist, and the Presentation of National Self -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSearing images of suicide bombings and retaliatory strikes now define the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many Westerners, but television and print media are not the only visual realms in which the conflict is playing out. Even tourist postcards and greeting cards have been pressed into service as vehicles through which Israelis and Palestinians present competing visions of national selfhood and conflicting claims to their common homeland. In this book, Tim Jon Semmerling explores how Israelis and Palestinians have recently used postcards and greeting cards to present images of the national self, to build national awareness and reinforce nationalist ideologies, and to gain international acceptance. He discusses and displays the works of numerous postcard/greeting card manufacturers, artists, and photographers and identifies the symbolic choices in their postcards, how the choices are arranged into messages, what the messages convey and to whom, and who benefits and loses in these presentations of national self. Semmerling convincingly demonstrates that, far from being ephemeral, Israeli and Palestinian postcards constitute an important arena of struggle over visual signs and the power to produce reality. 606 $aPostcards$zIsrael 606 $aPostcards$zPalestine 606 $aSelf-presentation$zIsrael 606 $aSelf-presentation$zPalestine 615 0$aPostcards 615 0$aPostcards 615 0$aSelf-presentation 615 0$aSelf-presentation 676 $a956.9405/022/2 700 $aSemmerling$b Tim Jon$f1961-$01518245 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777693603321 996 $aIsraeli and Palestinian postcards$93765401 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$45.00$u12/31/2019$5Art