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Gender and Resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Woman's Voice in the Literary Works of Sahar Khalifeh and David Grossman

White, Breanne
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373636550

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2013, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Amidst the many literary voices in Arabic and Hebrew clamoring for prominence in the narration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are those that actively resist dominant social narratives, highlighting the multiplicity of experiences held by different members of society and how they are affected by the conflict. In this thesis I examine the literary works of two novelists, the Palestinian Sahar Khalifeh and the Israeli David Grossman, and the specific ways in which they resist dominant societal representations of the “other,” both in political and gendered terms. Sahar Khalifeh's The Inheritance focuses specifically on women's role in a society under occupation, while David Grossman's To The End of the Land looks at the military conflict through the lens of a mother concerned about her soldier son. Focusing on the woman's role in the family and in society, both Khalifeh and Grossman reveal the damaging effects that the conflict has on the social structures at the heart of both Israeli and Palestinian societies. In doing so, both Grossman and Khalifeh create new paradigms for portraying women and conflict in literature, ones that promote women as empowered subjects and highlight the varied experiences of women in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Naomi Brenner (Advisor)
Joseph Zeidan (Committee Member)
102 p.
Middle Eastern Studies
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; literature; feminist conflict theory

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  • White, B. (2013). Gender and Resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Woman's Voice in the Literary Works of Sahar Khalifeh and David Grossman [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373636550

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • White, Breanne. Gender and Resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Woman's Voice in the Literary Works of Sahar Khalifeh and David Grossman. 2013. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373636550.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • White, Breanne. "Gender and Resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Woman's Voice in the Literary Works of Sahar Khalifeh and David Grossman." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373636550

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