Short Fiction as a Mirror of Palestinian Life in Israel, 1944-1967: Critique and Anthology (Crosscurrents: New Studies on the Middle East, #4)

by Jamal Assadi and Saif Abu Saleh

R Kevin Lacey (Editor) and Sari Nusseibeh (Editor)

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This volume seeks to document the development of the Palestinian short story between 1944 and 1967. This particularly significant phase that carried the seeds, from which the short story grew, was greatly influenced by the last years of the British mandate over Palestine in 1944, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent changes that impacted Palestinian society in this country until the Arabs' defeat in the Six Day War, 1967.

Within the fold of this volume, the reader will find two parts: the first is a general account of the development of the genre of short fiction and the different approaches that characterized it along with a discussion of the language and an examination of the content. The second is an anthology of twenty-five stories published between 1944 and 1967 by Al-Ittihad, an Israeli Arabic-language daily newspaper.

  • ISBN13 9781453919095
  • Publish Date 6 November 2017 (first published 30 October 2017)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 184
  • Language English