Israel/Palestine: Border Representations in Literature and Film

Drew Paul

Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders.

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Border Representations in Literature and Film

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vii

Note on Translation and Transliteration
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-xii

1 - Introduction: Excess, Illusion and the Border
pp 1-42

I - Expanding Borders
pp 43-44

2 - Return to the Border: Commitment, Utopia and the Inescapable Green Line
pp 45-76

3 - Sayed Kashua, the Palestinian Hebrew Novel and the Failure of Coexistence
pp 77-104

II - Deceptive Borders
pp 105-106

4 - Border Crossings and Stray Narratives of Return
pp 107-133

5 - Does the Camera Lie? Or, How to Document the Wall
pp 134-157

6 - The Illusion of the One-way Mirror: Filming the Checkpoint in Divine Intervention
pp 158-185

7 - Conclusion: Physical and Fictional Borders
pp 186-191

Bibliography
pp 192-204

Filmography
pp 205-205

Index
pp 206-212

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