A Language of Ones Own by Ismail Nashef - 9781399512022

A Language of Ones Own by Ismail Nashef - 9781399512022

Edinburgh University Press

A Language of Ones OwnLiterary Arabic, the Palestinians and Israel\nAuthor(s): Ismail Nashef\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399512022, 978-1399512022\nSynopsis\nFollowing the establishment of Israel in 1948, literary Arabic became one of the main representatives of Palestinian national identity within Israel, and therefore a contested public site. Various state agencies and Palestinian groups were active in this public site, calling for certain ways of reading and writing in Arabic. These ways influenced the processes of reshaping the Palestinian national identity that were ignited by the war of 1948. Addressing the Palestinian reading public in Israel, both state agencies and Palestinian groups used literary criticism, as well as other genres, to promote and inculcate their preferred ways of reading and writing. \nIsmail Nashef argues that since 1948 there have been three distinct modes for.

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