Description
Book SynopsisTim Jon Semmerling explores how Israelis and Palestinians have recently used postcards and greeting cards to present images of the national self, to build national awareness and reinforce nationalist ideologies, and to gain international acceptance.
Trade Review"This is a significant and highly original contribution... Semmerling provides a new way for both the specialist and the non-specialist in Israeli-Palestinian relations to understand the wide range of claims to national identity, as well as the biases informing those claims." John R. Clarke, Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Presentation of National Self
- Chapter 1. Palphot's Israeli Self
- Chapter 2. The Palestinian Self in Artwork Postcards
- Chapter 3. The Janus-Faced Palestinian Self
- Chapter 4. The Ecological Palestinian Self
- Chapter 5. The Orientalized Area Self
- Chapter 6. The Heritage-Enriched Palestinian Self
- Conclusion: Tom Sawyer, Visual Methodologist, and the Presentation of National Self
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
