Theatre and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Azza Harras received her Ph.D. in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent in 2015. She previously served as an Assistant Lecturer at Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt and the University of Kent, UK. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: The ‘Beginning’ of Rhetoric in Narrative and its Materialization on land in Ali Ahmed Bkhathir’s The New Shaylok and Burhan al-Din Al-Aboushi The Martyr’s HomelandChapter Two: Theorizing Resistance and Liberation in Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the First Palestinian Intifada’s Theatrical NarrativeChapter Three: Imagining Jewish Diaspora, Writing Palestinian Shatat (taghreaba) Chapter Four: Occidental Representations of the Conflict: Narrating the Israeli/ Palestinian Conflict in The Metropolitan Theatre of Europe and North AmericaConclusion: Theatre, Postcolonial Literary Studies and destabilizing Zionist RhetoricAppendix 1Bibliography

The intellectual focus of this book consists of reading Israeli and Palestinian theatrical literary responses to key events in the history of Israel-Palestine alongside each other. This serves to expose profoundly the incommensurability of the power-divided narratives generated by colonisation. The wide-ranging study brings to light over-looked sources and further attends to international responses to the conflict. It is a ground-breaking work of crucial timely relevance, and also very moving in its treatment of theatre as an archive of emotions.