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Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine
By (Author) Lital Levy
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
17th July 2017
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social groups: religious groups and communities
892.409006
Paperback
360
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
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 vi
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."--Anna Bernard, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World "An important and engaging work that will be of great interest to scholars concerned with Israel/Palestine, Arabic and Hebrew literatures as well as Mizrahi studies."--Pelle Valentin Olsen, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
Lital Levy is associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, where she teaches Modern Hebrew and Arabic literatures and literary theory.