Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine by Lital Levy textbook Leslie Toliver

Leslie Toliver

and intellectually captivating

and the dream of a homeland

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Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine by Lital Levy textbook Leslie ToliverA Palestinian Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In Poetic Trespass, Lital Levy brings together such startling visions to offer the first in depth study of the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the literature