Palestine America

by Bamyeh, Mohammed; Michael, John (CON); Bamyeh, Mohammed (CON); Makdisi, Saree (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822365839
• ISBN10: 0822365839
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

In the many decades of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the full complexity of that strife has seldom been heard. This special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly seeks to intervene by offering a critique of the Palestinian experience. Mapping the complicated relationship among Palestine, the United States, and Israel, this issue includes critical essays on the politics, culture, literature, and history of the Palestinian people.Bringing together a diverse group of contributors ranging from Roane Carey of The Nation to scholars in Arab, Jewish, and comparative literary studies, this special issue considers Palestinian gender and identity and their relationship to the conflict with Israel as represented in film, literature, and photography. Essays explore the failed peace process, misrepresentations of the Oslo meetings, the devastating effect of continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and the growing controversy over the call for U.S. military divestment from Israel.Mohammed Bamyeh is Visiting Associate Professor for the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.

Table of Contents

Special Issue Editor
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
Introduction: Why Palestine?	667	(8)
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
Palestine Besieged: The Threat of Annihilation	675	(26)
Roane Carey
Beyond Us and Them: Identity and Terror from an Arab American's Perspective	701	(28)
John Michael
Journeys to Jerusalem	729	(18)
Lisa Suhair Majaj
Between Complicity and Subversion: Body Politics in Palestinian National Narrative	747	(26)
Amal Amireh
Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The Left Behind Series and Christian Fundamentalism's New World Order	773	(26)
Melani Mcalister
The Plight of the Innocents: A Photo-Essay	799	(26)
Thomas W. Lockwood
The Mothers of the Intifada in Liana Badr's
The Eye of the Mirror	809	(16)
Brinda J. Mehta
Palestine: Listening to the Inaudible	825	(26)
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
Memory/Imagination/Resistance	851	(10)
Ammiel Alcalay
Techniques of Trouble: Edward Said and the Dialectics of Cultural Philology	861	(16)
Andrew N. Rubin
The Israel Divestment Campaign and the Question of Palestine in America	877	(18)
Saree Makdisi
``The Night Can Sweat with Terror As Before'': Afterthoughts	895	(20)
Kenneth Surin
Notes on Contributors	915	(2)
Index to Volume 102	917