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Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine by Lital Levy (review)

Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine by Lital Levy (review) Review Essays Lital Levy, Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 360 pp. “Who will tell our story? We, who walk upon this night, driven out of place and myth. The myth that could not find a single one among us to testify that the crime had not taken place. If we are not we, then they are not they. But particulars are particulars—the thief ’s pretext.” —Mahmoud Darwish 1 Edward Said introduced the idea that postcolonial writers bear their past within them as “re- in terpretable and rdep e- loyable experiences in which the formerly silent native speaks and acts on territory taken back from the colo 2 H niais list.” words resonate decades later, in the works of Israeli and Palestinian writers and poets. In many ways, Lital Levy’s Poetic Trespa, w ss hich studies the inseparable paths of Hebrew and Arabic, starts exactly where the silent native Palestinian or Jewish writer locates the appropriate linguistic “territory” and speaks. Poetic p Tro res -pass foundly identifies linguistic liminality within Jewis I h- sraeli and PalestiniaI n- sraeli literature and its interrelation with Mizraḥi literature. It brings together historical moments in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine by Lital Levy (review)

The Comparatist , Volume 42 – Nov 19, 2018

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University of North Carolina Press
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Review Essays Lital Levy, Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 360 pp. “Who will tell our story? We, who walk upon this night, driven out of place and myth. The myth that could not find a single one among us to testify that the crime had not taken place. If we are not we, then they are not they. But particulars are particulars—the thief ’s pretext.” —Mahmoud Darwish 1 Edward Said introduced the idea that postcolonial writers bear their past within them as “re- in terpretable and rdep e- loyable experiences in which the formerly silent native speaks and acts on territory taken back from the colo 2 H niais list.” words resonate decades later, in the works of Israeli and Palestinian writers and poets. In many ways, Lital Levy’s Poetic Trespa, w ss hich studies the inseparable paths of Hebrew and Arabic, starts exactly where the silent native Palestinian or Jewish writer locates the appropriate linguistic “territory” and speaks. Poetic p Tro res -pass foundly identifies linguistic liminality within Jewis I h- sraeli and PalestiniaI n- sraeli literature and its interrelation with Mizraḥi literature. It brings together historical moments in

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Published: Nov 19, 2018

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