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Is perfect “Passing” possible? nationalism and gender in the Writings of Sayed Kashua
Middle Eastern Literatures Pub Date : 2018-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/1475262x.2018.1492192
Dana Olmert 1
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ABSTRACT The essay addresses a central aspect in the writings of the Israeli-Palestinian writer, scriptwriter and journalist, Sayed Kashua: the passion of his main characters, all Israeli-Arabs, to assimilate into Jewish culture and pass as Jews. It argues that narratives of “passing”, even when dealing with the crossing of racial, national or social lines, are necessarily tied to gender models. Literature and history are full of stories of “passing”, and all of them, including Kashua's, depict a craving to pass that shows an affinity to forceful binary heteronormative ideals of manhood and womanhood. The essay offers an analysis of the narrative of “passing” in Kashua's third novel, Second Person Singular (2010). It points to the successful “passing” of the protagonist, Amir, and examines the psycho-political implications of this success by comparing it with other protagonists in Kashua's earlier writing, who all failed to pass as Jewish-Israelis.

中文翻译:

完美的“通过”可能吗?赛义德·卡舒亚著作中的民族主义和性别

摘要 本文探讨了以色列-巴勒斯坦作家、编剧和记者赛义德·卡舒亚 (Sayed Kashua) 作品的一个核心方面:他的主要角色,所有以色列-阿拉伯人,都热衷于融入犹太文化并成为犹太人。它认为,“传递”的叙述,即使在处理种族、民族或社会界限的交叉时,也必然与性别模式有关。文学和历史充满了“穿越”的故事,所有这些故事,包括卡舒亚的,都描绘了一种渴望通过,表现出对男性和女性的强烈二元异性恋理想的亲和力。这篇文章对卡舒亚的第三部小说《第二人称奇点》(2010)中的“穿越”叙事进行了分析。它指向主角阿米尔的成功“通过”,
更新日期:2018-01-02
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