New Article: Mann, Palestinian Memory in the Israeli Landscape

Mann, Barbara E. ” ‘An Apartment to Remember’: Palestinian Memory in the Israeli Landscape.” History and Memory 27.1 (2015): 83-115.

 

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/histmemo.27.1.83

 

Abstract

This essay offers a site-specific reading of Jaffa Slope Park, a newly opened public space on the city’s coastal border, in relation to both Ajami, the largely Arab neighborhood upon whose ruins it was built, and Ayman Sikseck’s memoiristic novel, To Jaffa (Hebrew, 2010). The park is analyzed in relation to Hebrew literary history. Analyzing the production of Palestinian memory within Israeli culture allows us to rethink memory in a transnational setting, and to consider how the Nakba is remembered across different discursive realms shaped by geography, history and language.

 

New Article: Maher, Journeys into the Western Galilee, in Khouri and Yehoshua

Maher, John. “Blue, Half-Forgotten Hills: Journeys into the Western Galilee, in Ilyas Khouri’s Gate of the Sun and A.B. Yehoshua’s The Liberated Bride.” Comparative Critical Studies 10, supplement (2013): 107-121.

URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ccs.2013.0116

Excerpt

At the end of the day, Rivlin will come no closer to finding the so-called ‘secret’ of the Algerian civil war than he will to finding the ‘secret’ of his son’s failed marriage, a tale, literally and metaphorically, of subterranean incest which mirrors his own ignorance of the lives of the minority in Haifa and Acre and Jerusalem and the Galilee. As with Naim, the young Palestinian boy in The Lover, the servant always know more about the master than the master knows about the servant.

ToC: Jewish Social Studies 18,3 (2012): Special issue; History and Responsibility: Hebrew Literature Facing 1948

Volume 18, Number 3, Spring/Summer 2012

History and Responsibility: Hebrew Literature Facing 1948, edited by Amir Eshel, Hannan Hever, and Vered Karti Shemtov

Table of Contents

Articles

 Introduction        pp. 1-9

        Amir Eshel, Hannan Hever, Vered Karti Shemtov

 

Nation, Village, Cave: A Spatial Reading of 1948 in Three Novels of Anton Shammas, Emile Habiby, and Elias Khoury    

pp. 10-26

        Lital Levy

 

An Incomplete Frame Narrative Revisited: S. Yizhar’s Introduction to “Hirbet Hiz‘ah”    

pp. 27-37

        Todd Hasak-Lowy

 

The Time That Returns: Speculative Temporality in S. Yizhar’s 1948

pp. 38-54

        Shaul Setter

 

A Poetics of Haunting: From Yizhar’s Hirbeh to Yehoshua’s Ruins to Koren’s Crypts    

pp. 55-69

        Gil Hochberg

 

“I Said unto You When You Were in Your Blood, Live”: Yoram Kaniuk’s Tasha”h    

pp. 70-84

        Amir Eshel

 

Nakba and Holocaust: Mechanisms of Comparison and Denial in the Israeli Literary Imagination    

pp. 85-98

        Shira Stav

 

Abba Kovner: The Ritual Function of His Battle Missives    

pp. 99-119

        Michal Arbell

 

Unraveling the Wars of 1948    

pp. 120-135

        Uri Cohen

 

 

 S. Y. Agnon’s Jerusalem: Before and After 1948     

pp. 136-152

        Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

 

 

“The Two Gaze Directly into One Another’s Face”: Avot Yeshurun between the Nakba and the Shoah—An Israeli Perspective   

pp. 153-163

        Hannan Hever

 

 Sovereignty and Melancholia: Israeli Poetry after 1948    

pp. 164-179

        Michael Gluzman

 

Beyond Thematicism in the Historiography of Post-1948 Political Poetry    

pp. 180-196

        Chana Kronfeld

 

Citizenship and Sacrifice: The Tragic Scheme of Moshe Shamir’s He Walked through the Fields    

pp. 197-211

        Mikhal Dekel

 

“I Was in a War, and in a War Things Like That Happen”: On Judgments and Ethical Investigations in Israeli Law and Literature    

pp. 212-224

        Renana Keydar

 

---

                      Contributors    

pp. 225-227

 

                      In Forthcoming Issues    

p. 228