Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index (pages 228-230)
Contents:
Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Historic background : Arab intellectual thought during the Arab Nahḍa and its aftermath -- Zionism as a national movement -- Where does Palestinian identity end and Israeli identity begin? -- Setting the boundaries for the state identity -- The boundaries of Palestinian Arabic. Orientalisation, securitisation and minoritisation of Arabic : The (re)production of knowledge of Arabic and the Orient in the Israeli academia -- Arabic departments in Israeli universities -- Arabic in the Knesset: the case of (MK) Ahmad Tibi -- Interviews during fieldwork. The (in)visibility of Arabic: the linguistic landscape : Arabs and nationality in Israel: minoritised people, minoritised language -- The linguistic landscape of Arabic. Modernisation, globalisation and citizenship in Israel : Azmi Bishara: an alternative view of citizenship -- Changes in the Israeli political scene -- What does an official language mean? -- bilingual schools -- The case for Aramaic. Autobiography and language choice : Sasson Somekh -- Anton Shammas -- Sayed Kashua -- Juxtaposition of Somekh, Shammas and Kashua: when someone gives up a language, is it considered a loss? And by whom? -- The Arab Jew. Arabic in Jordan and Palestine : "Can the subaltern speak?" The Andrew Shryock-Joseph Massad debate -- The (re)production of knowledge on Arabic. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
Arab became a minority language overnight in Israel in 1948, as a result of the Palestinian exodus from their land that year. Although it remains an official language, along with Hebrew, Israel has made continued attempts to marginalize Arabic on the one hand and securitize it on the other. The author delves into these tensions and contradictions, exploring how language policy and language choice both reflect and challenge political identities of Arabs and Israelis. She explores the historic context of Arabic in Israel, the attempts at minoritizing, Orientalizing and securitizing the language, the Linguistic Landscape of Arabic in Israel, the effect of globalization, modernization and citizenship status on the status of Arabic, Hebrew as a language choice of (semi) autobiographical productions of three Israeli authors who are native speakers of Arabic, and lastly, a comparison with the status of Arabic in both Jordan and Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip) where Arabic is the official language.
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