Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada

Ned Curthoys is Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia and researches in areas including Jewish and Holocaust studies, representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and narrative theory. His monograph The Legacy of Liberal Judaism: Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt’s Hidden Conversation (2013, paperback 2016) was published by Berghahn books. His work has appeared in Textual Practice, Comparative Literature Studies, Theory and Event, New Formations, Children’s Literature in Education, and College Literature (forthcoming). He is working on his second book examining the Bildungsroman as a shaping influence on historical fiction and film about the Second World War. Isabelle Hesse is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research is situated at the intersection of Jewish, Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and she is the author of The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism, and Colonialism (2016) and has co-edited Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict after the Second Intifada (2022) with Ned Curthoys.

• Introduction - Ned Curthoys and Isabelle HessePart 1: The Aesthetics of Occupation1. The Severed Limb: Relational Life-Writing Against Techno-Biopolitical Violence in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats With Me - Rita Sakr2. Daily Encounters: Diary Writing and the Politics of the Mundane in Occupied Palestine - Hiyem Cheurfa3. American Palestinian Women as Public Intellectuals: New Narratives of Resistance - Sahar Al-Shoubaki4. The Palestinian Rebel: Liberty and Statehood in Literature - Jumana Bayeh5. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict in To the End of the Land: Some Thoughts on David Grossman’s Hebrew in Translation - Niva Kaspi　Part 2: Repurposing Form: Reimagining the Conflict Outside of Palestine/Israel6. ‘Public Confession’ in Palestinian Literary Self-Narratives after the Second Intifada - Aarushi Punia7. Detectives in Bethlehem: Crime Fiction in the Occupied Territories - Anastasia Valassopoulos8. Reframing Occupation After the Second Intifada: Drawing from Experience in Francophone Graphic Novels - Lowry Martin9. Coming of Age in Graphic Novels Representing the Palestine/Israel Conflict - Ned Curthoys10. The Palestine/Israel Conflict in the Young Adult Anglophone Bildungsroman - Isabelle Hesse11. Feeding Words with Sugar: Resurrecting Palestine in Children's Picture Books from Egypt - Magda　Hasabelnaby and Radwa R. MahmoudAfterword - Anna Bernard

[...] a multi-faceted and multi-layered collection that addresses literary and aesthetic production concerning the Palestine/Israel conflict since the Second Intifada from different – and at times, contesting and far away – points of departure. [...] the book also offers itself as a case of representing literature without ignoring its diverse perspectives, approaches, and positions that are, too, located within power dynamics and conflict.