| Description |
xv, 337 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
Published by Princeton University Press. |
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This book has been composed in Gentium Plus, Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk, and Brioso Pro. |
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Printed on acid-free paper. |
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Printed in the United States of America. |
| Contents |
Historical Visions and Elisions -- Bilingual Entanglements -- Afterlives of Language. |
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From the "Hebrew Bedouin" to "Israeli Arabic": Arabic, Hebrew, and the Creation of Israeli Culture -- Bialik and the Sephardim: The Ethnic Encoding of Modern Hebrew Literature -- Exchanging Words: Arabic Writing in Israel and the Poetics of Misunderstanding -- Palestinian Midrash: Toward a Postnational Poetics of Hebrew Verse -- "Along Came the Knife of Hebrew and Cut Us in Two": Language in Mizrai Fiction, 1964-2010 -- "So You Won't Understand a Word": Secret Languages, Pseudo-languages, and the Presence of Absence. |
| Credits |
Jacket art: Hebrew letters are from Seder hagada shel pesa 'im shar fil-'arabi (Passover Haggadah in Judeo-Arabic), Jerusalem: Hosta'at Bakal, 1977. Arabic letters are from émile Zola, al-Mal, al-Mal, al-Mal (Arabic translation of L'Argent, translated by the Lebanese Jewish journalist Esther Azhari Moyal), Cairo: Matba'at al-Shuri, 1907. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Subject |
Literature.
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Islamic Studies.
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Jewish Studies.
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Middle Eastern 4 : -- 1918-present.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9780691162485 |
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9781400852574 |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb34114 hdl |
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