Social consciousness forms in allegiance with the moral and political hegemonic power structures. Gramsci's organic ideology defines this condition of hegemonic system where societal leadership is practised by the dominant class. With the emergence of cultural studies the prevailing hegemonic discourses are challenged, but defining liminality in this spectrum is still an ongoing process. In this context, the essay aims to demarcate the problematic aspects of personal and national identities against the hegemonic power structures, specifically with the case of the Arab minority in the State of Israel. Apart from the fundamental facets of hegemony, the aberrant conflict between nationalism and citizenship emerging from Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish democratic State, places the Arab Israeli identity in question. These arguments are validated through the fictional life narrative of Israel’s prominent Arab writer Sayed Kashua. His novel Dancing Arabs (2002) recapitulates the reality of being an Arab in Israel. The impeccable representation of identities in question hinges the repercussions of hegemony and social exclusion on both subjective and national levels. Standing on the critical platforms of Gramsci’s political theory of “hegemony” and Stuart Hall’s cultural theory of “identity”, the text is closely read as an artefact of resistance with emphasis on personal, political and philosophical discourses on the identity of the Arab minority in Israel. The essay traverses through the ethnocentric status of Israel’s social structure which disorders the recognition of Arab identity and identifies the conflict as a potential hindrance to peaceful coexistence in Israel’s near future.

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霸权、排斥和模棱两可的身份：赛义德·卡舒亚《跳舞的阿拉伯人》中对以色列阿拉伯少数民族的反思

社会意识的形成与道德和政治霸权结构相呼应。葛兰西的有机意识形态定义了霸权体系的这种条件，在这种情况下，社会领导权由统治阶级实施。随着文化研究的出现，盛行的霸权话语受到挑战，但在这个范围内定义界限仍然是一个持续的过程。在此背景下，本文旨在将个人和民族认同的问题方面与霸权权力结构区分开来，特别是在以色列国的阿拉伯少数民族案例中。除了霸权的基本方面，由于以色列作为一个犹太民主国家的合法性而产生的民族主义和公民身份之间的异常冲突，使阿拉伯以色列人的身份受到质疑。这些论点通过以色列著名阿拉伯作家赛义德·卡舒亚的虚构生活叙事得到证实。他的小说《跳舞的阿拉伯人》（2002 年）概括了在以色列成为阿拉伯人的现实。所讨论的身份的无可挑剔的表现取决于霸权和社会排斥在主观和国家层面的影响。站在葛兰西的“霸权”政治理论和斯图尔特霍尔的“身份”文化理论的批判平台上，该文本被仔细阅读为抵抗的人工制品，重点是关于阿拉伯少数民族身份的个人、政治和哲学话语。以色列。