Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine

Obenzinger, Hilton

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“…There are, however, dramatic discrepancies between the nineteenth and twentieth-century travel books, attributable to the stark changes in the state of affairs in the region, from one century to the next. But their authors share certain manners of response to the complex religious and psychological encounter with the idea of a sacred land (Obenzinger 2009).…”

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“…The vast library of American and European Holy Land books perpetuated a thick textual lens. Consequently, the encounter with the actual place was relentlessly being mediated through an elaborate set of repeated travel and literary devices (Obenzinger 2009). These accounts were so plenteous and so overwrought that Mark Twain could have easily written his Holy Land travelling letters without even having to set foot in Jerusalem.…”

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Understanding Jerusalem and its Cross-Cultural Dilemmas in Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City

Gavrilă

2015

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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Guy Delisle's Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City (2011) year that the Canadian artist and his family spent living far from home, in the occasionally dangerous and perilous city of the ancient Middle East.an inquisitive and sharp-eyed travelogue, Jerusalem is interspersed with enthralling lessons on the history of the region, together with vignettes of brief strips of Delisle's encounters with expatriates and locals, with Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities in and around the city, with Bedouins, Israeli and Palestinians. Since the comic strip is considered amongst the privileged genres able to disseminate stereotypes, Jerusalem tackles cultural as well as physical barriers, delimiting between domestic and foreign space, while revealing the historical context of the Israeli-Palestinian imagological method of interpretation to address cross-cultural confusions in analysing the cartoonist's travelogue as discourse of representation and ways of understanding cultural transmission, paying attention to the techniques employed. Through an imagological perspective, I will also pay attention to the interaction between cultures and the dynamics between the images which characterise the Other (the nationalities represented or the spected) and those which characterise -not without a sense of irony -his own identity (self-portraits or auto-images). I shall take into account throughout my analysis that the source of this graphic memoir is inevitably a subjective one: even though Delisle professes an unbiased mind-set from the very beginning, the comic is at times coloured by his secular views. Delisle's book is a dark, yet gentle comedy, and his wife's job at the Doctors Without Borders paired with his personal experiences are paradoxically a gentle reminder that "There'll always be borders." In sum, the comic medium brings a sense of novelty to the imagological and hermeneutic conception of the interpretation of cultural and national stereotypes and/or otherness in artistic and literary works.

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Understanding Jerusalem and its Cross-Cultural Dilemmas in Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City

Gavrilă

2015

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature

2015

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This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a host of leading scholars, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature offers an array of approaches that contribute to current debates about ethnic writing, minority discourse, transnational literature, gender studies, and multilingualism. This History takes a fresh look at celebrated authors, introduces new voices, locates Jewish American literature on the map of American ethnicity as well as the spaces of exile and diaspora, and stretches the boundaries of American literature beyond the Americas and the West.

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The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature

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