Browsing by Subject "Postcolonial"
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A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel
(2012)Israel's establishment in 1948 in former British-Mandate Palestine as a Jewish country and as a liberal democracy is commonly understood as a form of response to the Holocaust of WWII. Zionist narratives frame Israel's ... -
Belonging in Genesis: Biblical Israel and the Construction of Communal Identity
(2008-06-25)Genesis is central to both hegemonic and counterhegemonic conceptions of communal identity. Read one way, the book undergirds contemporary assumptions about the nature of communality and the categories through which it is ... -
War Worlds: Violence, Sociality, and the Forms of Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Literature
(2016)“War Worlds” reads twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature to examine the social practices of marginal groups (pacifists, strangers, traitors, anticolonial rebels, queer soldiers) during the world wars. This ... -
When the Poet Is a Stranger: Poetry and Agency in Tagore, Walcott, and Darwish
(2009)ABSTRACTThis study is concerned with the process of the making of a postcolonial poet persona where the poet is addressing multiple audiences and is trying to speak for, and speak to, multiple constituencies through poetry. ...
