{"title":"Literary Criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Literary Criticism collection. Best Price.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"journeys-beyond-the-pale-yiddish-travel-writing-in-the-modern-world-by-leah-garrett","title":"Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World by Leah Garrett","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJourneys beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization.  The story of the Jews of the Pale of settlement encompasses current-day Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"CHICD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176385360030,"sku":"fsr1787285459241","price":15.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6345\/4366\/files\/journeys-beyond-the-pale-yiddish-travel-writing-in-the-modern-world-by-leah-garr_1.jpg?v=1787285464"},{"product_id":"poetic-trespass-writing-between-hebrew-and-arabic-in-israelpalestine-by-lital-levy","title":"Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel\/Palestine by Lital Levy","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, \"Homelandic,\" is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a \"language plague\" that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetic Trespass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Lital Levy brings together such startling visions to offer the first in-depth study of the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the literature and culture of Israel\/Palestine. More than that, she presents a captivating portrait of the literary imagination's power to transgress political boundaries and transform ideas about language and belonging.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlending history and literature, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetic Trespass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e traces the interwoven life of Arabic and Hebrew in Israel\/Palestine from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, exposing the two languages' intimate entanglements in contemporary works of prose, poetry, film, and visual art by both Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel. In a context where intense political and social pressures work to identify Jews with Hebrew and Palestinians with Arabic, Levy finds writers who have boldly crossed over this divide to create literature in the language of their \"other,\" as well as writers who bring the two languages into dialogue to rewrite them from within.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExploring such acts of poetic trespass, Levy introduces new readings of canonical and lesser-known authors, including Emile Habiby, Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Anton Shammas, Saul Tchernichowsky, Samir Naqqash, Ronit Matalon, Salman Masalha, A. B. Yehoshua, and Almog Behar. By revealing uncommon visions of what it means to write in Arabic and Hebrew, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetic Trespass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e will change the way we understand literature and culture in the shadow of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176385392798,"sku":"hzy1787285459868","price":34.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6345\/4366\/files\/poetic-trespass-writing-between-hebrew-and-arabic-in-israelpalestine-by-lital-le_1.jpg?v=1787285464"}],"url":"https:\/\/urbanwearstore.shop\/collections\/literary-criticism.oembed","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}