Re:orienting/writing the Mediterranean.
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Title
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Re:orienting/writing the Mediterranean.
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Identifier
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AAI9000013
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identifier
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9000013
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Creator
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Alcalay, Ammiel.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Allen Mandelbaum
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Date
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1989
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Middle Eastern | Literature, Comparative | History, Middle Eastern
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Abstract
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Re:Orienting/Writing the Mediterranean proposes a new framework for the study of diverse literatures within the changing political contexts (empire/colonialism/nationalism) of the Mediterranean world. Ranging from the 10th to the 20th c., particular emphasis is placed on the following issues: the ideological, historical and literary relations between Arabs and Jews; 'native' and 'non-native' narrative forms; the social functions of literature, and gender. Works from Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese and French are examined.;Chapter 1., "Discontinued Lines/Drafts for an Itinerary," traces a contemporary voyage from Beirut to Jerusalem to Cairo, with each city portrayed through various forms of writing that have emerged from them.;Chapter 2., "A Garden Enclosed/The Geography of Time," travels back to the old Mediterranean world; analogies are made between the cultural practices of Jews and the economic diversity, geographic mobility and communal autonomy characterizing the region and its people as a whole.;Chapter 3., "History's Noise/ The Beginning of the End, " looks at the rise of the novel in the Levant as a paradigm for the emergence of new criteria defining Jewish identity in the late 19th and early 20th c.;Chapter 4., "Postscript: To end, to begin again," places the present culture of Mediterranean and Arab Jews within the context of Israel's role in the Levant and the question of Palestine.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
