Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine

Hella Bloom Cohen is an assistant professor of English at St. Catherine University, USA. She previously held a visiting assistant professorship at Elon University, USA, and has published on material culture and global literature.

• 1. Introduction to Palestinian-Israeli Literature and Postcolonial Studies: an Uneasy Relationship. 2. Reading Freyre in the Holy Land 3. 'The Synthetic Principle': Darwish's 'Rita' 4. 'Intimate Histories': Internal Miscegenation in a. b. Yehoshua's A Late Divorce 5. 'Mixed Syndicate': Poetics of Fabric under Occupation 6. Reading Past Freyre: Disembodied Miscegenation Bibliography

'Attentive to political nuance, Hella Bloom Cohen makes a bold intervention in the current cultural debate surrounding Israel-Palestine, and does so through an innovative theoretical framework. This is an original, rigorous, and brave piece of scholarship.' - Anna Ball, Nottingham Trent University, UK