Summary
Author of Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine (Liverpool University Press, 2013), which began as a doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge under Priyamvada Gopal (Rhetorics of Belonging, PDF p.4, p.7).
Details
- Bernard positions herself as a student of Arabic and Hebrew rather than a ‘native informant’, conscious of the limits on her access to the milieux in which Palestinian and Israeli texts circulate (PDF p.13).
- The Acknowledgements place her successively at the University of York and then in English and Comparative Literature at King’s College London (PDF p.7-8).
- Her earlier articles include ‘Reading for the Nation: “Third-World Literature” and Israel/Palestine’ (New Formations 73, 2011) and ‘Another Black September? Palestinian Writing After 9/11’ (Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46.3–4, 2010), both substantially reworked into the book (PDF p.8).
Related pages
Rhetorics of Belonging, National narration, National allegory, Demographic imaginary