UPC: 9783030241612 | Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine s Poet and the Other as the Beloved (Hardcover)

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Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine s Poet and the Other as the Beloved focuses on Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dalya Cohen-Mor explores the poet s romantic relationship with Rita an Israeli Jewish woman whom he had met in Haifa in his early twenties and to whom he had dedicated a series of love poems and prose passages among them the iconic poem Rita and the Gun. Interwoven with biographical details and diverse documentary materials this exploration reveals a fascinating facet in the poet s personality his self-definition and his attitude toward the Israeli other. Comprising a close reading of Darwish s love poems coupled with many examples of novels and short stories from both Arabic and Hebrew fiction that deal with Arab-Jewish love stories this book delves into the complexity of Arab-Jewish relations and shows how romance can blossom across ethno-religious lines and how politics all too often destroys it.