"Hochberg's political realism is supplemented with a specifically
literary hope that reading can not only undo the effects of
forgetting but expose the complex ties that bind Arab and Jew.
Hochberg dares to articulate a shared history on the basis of a
patient, copious, and persuasive reading of Arab and Jewish writers
and critics, many of whom are not well understood by Anglophone
readers. Through a disorientingly lucid, close, and provocative set
of readings, she shows us that the cultural imagination has its
crucial place in articulating the prospects for peace. She makes
good on the claim that memory is crucial to imagining
anew."--Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley
"Hochberg's book is a poignant and rigorous demonstration of the
power of literature to provide a space of cohabitation and
confrontation that is an alternative to 'the logic of partition.'
An important and timely intervention that will be of interest to
all those who seek ways out of the impasses created by racial,
cultural, religious, or political differences."--Francoise Lionnet,
University of California, Los Angeles
"This book is a testimony to the healing power of literature,
its capacity to resist the mutilating logic of a social and
political world whose realities it refuses simply to mirror. It
deserves to be read by anyone who has the courage to imagine that
underlying a conflict played out on a landscape disfigured by
separating barriers, hideous walls, and strangling checkpoints,
there persists the quintessentially human desire to reunite what
has been separated, to share, to be equal, to be in common-and even
to love."--Saree Makdisi, University of California, Los Angeles
"GilHochberg's "In Spite of Partition" provides a fascinating
literary context that opens new directions for discussing the
relation between the signifiers 'Arab' and 'Jew.' Dedicated to a
close reading of Jewish and Arab authors who are rarely discussed
together and who subvert the dichotomy between Arabs and Jews, the
book will interest many readers."--Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben Gurion
University
""In Spite of Partition" makes a seminal contribution to the
study of Israel and Palestine, one that will influence the
development of a number of disciplines, particularly history and
comparative literature. It is extremely well written, and Hochberg
has a strong command of the material."--Mark Levine, University of
California, Irvine
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