Sadia Agsous: The Palestinian novel in Hebrew is a literature of resistance

Does Hebrew belong to the Jews? For the few Palestinian authors who have chosen to borrow this language designed for others, writing makes it possible to cross the invisible borders erected between peoples and cultures. In “Behind the Hebrew, the Arabic: the Palestinian novel in Hebrew (1966-2017)”*, Sadia Agsous examines the work of three of them. Through the analysis of novels by Atallah Mansour (1934-), Anton Shammas (1950-) and Sayed Kashua (1975-), the author “examines the novelistic creation produced in Hebrew by Palestinians since 1966” and, with it , “the possibilities of neighborhood” between Israelis and Palestinians. The Franco-Algerian academic, researcher and teacher specializing in Jewish-Arab relations, answers questions from “L’Orient-Le Jour”.