FRENCH
REMEMBERING THE FUTURE: FRANCOPHONE PERSPECTIVES
ON THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT
RACHEL NISSELSON
Dissertation under the direction of Professor Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller
This dissertation takes as its focus the role of memory in the representation of the Israel-Palestine conflict within Francophone literature. The prevailing narratives of both Israelis and Palestinians emphasize memories of past suffering in order to encourage empathyand moral and military supportfrom an international audience, as well as antagonism for the other. These monolithic narratives often propagate stereotypical articulations of the identity of the other: the Israeli as occupier and the Palestinian as terrorist. The works of Francophone authors Slimane Benaïssa, Hubert Haddad, Edmond El Maleh, and Elias Sanbar, however, challenge these flattened depictions, highlighting hybrid identities and counter-narratives. In addition to promoting a re-imagination of the actors in the conflict, I contend, these texts encourage a more complex rendering of the regions history by exposing the multiplicity of narratives and by uncovering lost, forgotten, or obscured stories. As textual spaces in which divergent accounts are forced to confront one another, I argue, these works ask us to reconsider the past and reflect on how these polyphonic histories might play out in the future.
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| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-07312010-124201 |
| Date | 11 August 2010 |
| Creators | Nisselson, Rachel Eve |
| Contributors | Julia Cohen, Robert Barsky, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07312010-124201/ |
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