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Jacqueline Kahanoff and the demise of the Levantine

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posted on 2023-06-09, 08:06 authored by David TalDavid Tal
More than anything else, Jacqueline Kahanoff is associated with the term Levantinism and, more specifically, with turning the term, which for many years had a derogatory meaning, into a positive source of identity. However, this reading of Kahanoff – namely, a carrier of the message of Levantinism as a bridge between Orient and Occident – seems to tell us more about Kahanoff’s readers than about Kahanoff herself. A careful reading of her writings reveals a different Kahanoff, a person who, more than being the originator and proponent of a new kind of identity, while moving swiftly across cultures and feeling at home nowhere because her home was everywhere, was actually well entrenched in the west, in Zionism and in Israel.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Mediterranean Historical Review

ISSN

0951-8967

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

2

Volume

32

Page range

237-254

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  • History Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-01-05

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-07-05

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-01-05

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