Description: Conflicts engages Hebrew and Arabic literature to critically reassess the concept of conflict, both in Palestine-Israel and in general. Drawing on a diverse archive, ranging from the 1930s to the present and from prose and poetry to film and television, it reveals indigenous literary concepts that better theorize the region's antagonisms and mediations, its colonial technologies and anticolonial practices.
Brief description: Liron Mor is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
Review Quotes: This ambitious book argues that the 'Israeli-Palestinian conflict' is simply not a conflict. In deconstructing this central yet misleading political paradigm, along with its historical uses and abuses, the author explores the uncharted cultural war zones between Hebrew and Palestinian cultural production while also offering a multi-layered discussion of Mizrahi identity and literature. Choosing not to follow in the trodden path of her predecessors in the field, Mor thus emerges as a 'discourse initiator' who establishes a new beginning, in the Saidian sense.---Anton Shammas, author of Arabesques