Summary
A Palestinian Israeli novelist writing in Hebrew, named in Rhetorics of Belonging as now better known than Anton Shammas among Palestinian Israeli Hebrew novelists, whose Let It Be Morning Bernard uses to illustrate Palestinian Israelis’ existential precarity (Rhetorics of Belonging, PDF p.145-146, p.166).
Details
- Bernard notes Shammas was not the first Palestinian Israeli Hebrew novelist (Atallah Mansour, 1966) nor the best known now — that is Kashua — though Arabesques has had the most significant impact on discussion of Palestinian Israeli writing in Hebrew (PDF p.145-146).
- Bernard’s Chapter 1 notes group Kashua with Shammas as Palestinian citizens of Israel writing in Hebrew who may be described as responding to the challenge of representing a Palestinian, or a non- or anti-Zionist Israeli, national consciousness (PDF p.172).
- In Chapter 6’s close, Bernard cites Kashua’s novel Va-yehi boker (2004, Eng. Let It Be Morning, 2006), in which the residents of Tira wake to learn they have been denationalized and transferred to the new Palestinian state: ‘I think we’re Palestinian now,’ the narrator says to his wife (2006, 266, quoted PDF p.166).