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Anna bernard describes the formation and operation of a category of palestinian and israeli world literature whose authors actively respond to the expectation that their work will narrate the nation. Shammas is the first christian palestinian to write in hebrew, and his family tale mingles with the lore of his displaced group. Apr 01, 1986 anton shammas, the first arab to write a novel in hebrew, has given us a riveting look at a people we hear too little about. Pmla is the journal of the modern language association of america. The combined population of fassuta, almansura and dayr alqasi was 2,300, and their total land area was 34,011 dunums. Arabesques is a classic of the exploration of identity.
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To learn a new song a quaker contribution towards real. His acclaimed hebrew novel arabesques 1986 was translated into eight languages, including english. Anton shammas is a palestinian writer, poet and translator of arabic, hebrew and english. Anton shammas chronicles his life as an israeli christian arab, dramatizing the bitter clash of traditions in a village on the galilee just after 1948 and his search for personal identity, which leads through paris to its climax in iowa city. The crisis in israelpalestine has long been the worlds most visible military conflict.
Four issues each year january, march, may, and october contain essays on language and literature. That the publisher lists this in the literaturemiddle eastern studies categories on the book jacket suggests that theres some extraliterary dimension to shammas s admittedly autobiographical story. In 1968, shammas moved to jerusalem and studied english and arabic literature and art history at the hebrew. Anton shammas, the first arab to write a novel in hebrew, has given us a riveting look at a people we hear too little about. This raises important questions for the political situation in israel today. What was alkhwarizmi was known for inventing during the. Palestinian christian village of fassuta in the galilee.
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