On the Mediterranean and the Nile

Aimée Israel-Pelletier is Professor and Head of French at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is author of Rimbaud's Impressionist Poetics: Vision and Visuality.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Jacques Hassoun: Return to Egypt2. Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff's Egypt: A View from the Nile3. Edmond Jabès: Egypt Recovered4. Paula Jacques, Resistance and Transmission: Transplanting Egypt on the Soil of France 5. André Aciman and the Mediterranean: The Staging of Egypt as Elsewhere EpilogueBibliographyIndex

With On the Mediterranean and the Nile, Israel-Pelletier has paid homage to a bygone—but never entirely forgotten—Egypt, and to at least two generations of writers, whose literary works on the one hand reveal a little-known side of the Egyptian past, and on the other help us understand the fascinating web of feelings and images that continues to bind together memory, nationhood, and Jewishness in and beyond the Mediterranean.(Reading Religion) Israel-Pelletier's close readings, her vivid descriptions of characters and predicaments, her analyses of writer's positions and intentions, bring us invaluable glimpses into Egyptian Jewish writers' creative impulses.(Sephardic Horizons)