"This is a significant and highly original contribution. . . .
Semmerling provides a new way for both the specialist and the
non-specialist in Israeli-Palestinian relations to understand the
wide range of claims to national identity, as well as the biases
informing those claims." -- John R. Clarke, Annie Laurie Howard
Regents Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Searing images of suicide bombings and retaliatory strikes now
define the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many Westerners, but
television and print media are not the only visual realms in which
the conflict is playing out. Even tourist postcards and greeting
cards have been pressed into service as vehicles through which
Israelis and Palestinians present competing visions of national
selfhood and conflicting claims to their common homeland.
In this book, Tim Jon Semmerling explores how Israelis and
Palestinians have recently used postcards and greeting cards to
present images of the national self, to build national awareness
and reinforce nationalist ideologies, and to gain international
acceptance. He discusses and displays the works of numerous
postcard/greeting card manufacturers, artists, and photographers
and identifies the symbolic choices in their postcards, how the
choices are arranged into messages, what the messages convey and to
whom, and who benefits and loses in these presentations of national
self. Semmerling convincingly demonstrates that, far from being
ephemeral, Israeli and Palestinian postcards constitute an
important arena of struggle over visual signs and the power to
produce reality.
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