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T1 Landscapes in translation : traveling the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel with Raja Shehadeh and David Grossman
A1 Zerner, Charles
K1 Landscape
K1 Language
K1 Translation
K1 Memory
K1 Occupied Palestinian territories
K1 Israel
K1 Paisaje
K1 Lengua
K1 Traducción
K1 Memoria
K1 Territorios palestinos ocupados
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB This paper investigates the translation of raw terrain and territory–rocks, streams, canyons, packs of wild dog and clusters of cyclamen–into two parallel, contrapuntal, and mutually referential forms of textualized landscapes: Israeli nature, landscape, and travel in Grossman's To the End of the Land and Palestinian landscape as figured in Raja Shehadeh’s renderings in Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape. By examining Shehadeh's and Grossman’s translations of the same topoi—olive groves, paths in woods, wildlife, wildflowers, wild dogs and their behaviors, streams, footpaths, memorials, walls, and checkpoints—this paper investigates how topographical facts on the map and on the ground— geomorphological, biological, and cultural features of terrain—are differentially translated, transformed and moved into distinctive national natures—the multiple ways in which natural landscapes and national identities are conflated. The paper argues that the cultural and psychological scars of Israeli and Palestinian historical relations over land, boundaries, and political control saturate these landscape descriptions and narratives of “walking the land.” A second question animates this analysis: How are Shehadeh’s and Grossman’s personal histories of “the situation” carried over and translated into these landscapes and travel narratives? Slavoj Zizek asserts “already inscribed into the perceived object itself, in the guise of its [the subject’s] 'blind spot,' …is the point from which the object itself returns the gaze. Sure the picture is in my eye, but I am also in the picture.” Might Zizek’s claim assist us in understanding how the poetics and politics of the Israeli landscape and the occupied Palestinian territories are translated into topography and moved, from one place to another, as we see and walk these lands in tropes painted by Grossman’s and Shehadeh’s hands?
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2014
FD 2014-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20227
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20227
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 16-abr-2024