Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada

A collection of literary works from Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian and Jewish Diasporas, and authors and creators not directly involved with the conflict explore how the Palestine/Israel conflict is represented after the Second Palestinian Intifada. It highlights the thematic concerns that link these engagements and examines the role of aesthetic representation in framing the conflict and its power dynamics.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2024
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

This edited collection brings together discussions of literary works from Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian and Jewish Diasporas, as well as from authors and creators not directly involved with the conflict who are seeking to unpack its complexities for a wider audience. It offers new perspectives into how the Palestine/Israel conflict is, and can be, represented after the Second Palestinian Intifada, an epochal event for both Israelis and Palestinians. This collection foregrounds the thematic concerns that link literary engagements with Palestine/Israel across the globe but also examines the role that aesthetic representation plays in framing the conflict and its power dynamics. It addresses how emergent forms of writing and representation illuminate but also redescribe conflict in the context of Israel and Palestine and how, as in the case of the investigative graphic novel, depicting this conflict has had reverberations for representing conflict and conflict zones more widely.

This edited collection brings together discussions of literary works from Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian and Jewish Diasporas, as well as from authors and creators not directly involved with the conflict who are seeking to unpack its complexities for a wider audience. It offers new perspectives into how the Palestine/Israel conflict is, and can be, represented after the Second Palestinian Intifada, an epochal event for both Israelis and Palestinians. This collection foregrounds the thematic concerns that link literary engagements with Palestine/Israel across the globe but also examines the role that aesthetic representation plays in framing the conflict and its power dynamics. It addresses how emergent forms of writing and representation illuminate but also redescribe conflict in the context of Israel and Palestine and how, as in the case of the investigative graphic novel, depicting this conflict has had reverberations for representing conflict and conflict zones more widely.

Weight: 404g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474499743