Unacknowledged Kinships

Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism

Stefan Vogt, Derek Penslar, Arieh Saposnik, Stefan Vogt, Derek Penslar, Arieh Saposnik

• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781684581542
  9781684581559
• eBook ISBN:
  9781684581566
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 21st Century History
• Index: History

The first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the history of Zionism.
 
There is an "unacknowledged kinship" between studies of Zionism and post-colonial studies, a kinship that deserves to be both discovered and acknowledged. Unacknowledged Kinships strives to facilitate a conversation between the historiography of Zionism and postcolonial studies by identifying and exploring possible linkages and affiliations between their subjects as well as the limits of such connections. The contributors to this volume discuss central theoretical concepts developed within the field of postcolonial studies, and they use these concepts to analyze crucial aspects of the history of Zionism while contextualizing Zionist thought, politics, and culture within colonial and postcolonial histories. This book also argues that postcolonial studies could gain from looking at the history of Zionism as an example of not only colonial domination but also the seemingly contradictory processes of national liberation and self-empowerment.
 
Unacknowledged Kinships is the first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and Zionist historiography. It is also unique in suggesting that postcolonial concepts can be applied to the history of European Zionism just as comprehensively as to the history of Zionism in Palestine and Israel or Arab countries. Most importantly, the book is an overture for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the historiography of Zionism.
 

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Unacknowledged Kinships
• Part I · Conceptualizations
• Part II · Looking West, Looking East
• Part III · Palestine and Israel between Empire and Decolonization
• Part IV · Conversations
• Afterword: Intellectual Journeys
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index