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Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine
Lital Levy
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Description for Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; JFSR1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, Homelandic, is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a language plague that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In Poetic Trespass, Lital Levy brings together such startling visions to offer the first in-depth study of the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the literature and culture of Israel/Palestine. More than that, she presents a captivating portrait of the literary imagination's power to transgress political boundaries and transform ideas about language and ... Read more
A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, Homelandic, is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a language plague that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In Poetic Trespass, Lital Levy brings together such startling visions to offer the first in-depth study of the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the literature and culture of Israel/Palestine. More than that, she presents a captivating portrait of the literary imagination's power to transgress political boundaries and transform ideas about language and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691176093
SKU
V9780691176093
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About Lital Levy
Lital Levy is associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, where she teaches Modern Hebrew and Arabic literatures and literary theory.
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Co-Winner of the 2014 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association Winner of the 2014 Salo Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research Co-Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies Poetic Trespass is a major achievement.
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