[Peace-discuss] Friday: Exodus and the Americanization of Zionism
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 31 11:00:01 CDT 2010
Exodus and the Americanization of Zionism
Friday, November 05, 2010
4:00 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory Street
Urbana
Amy Kaplan
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Exodus, the best-selling 1958 novel and 1960 film, marketed the new state of
Israel to Americans. Exodus crated an Israeli myth of origins that appealed to
American conceptions of its own revolution. This myth of Israel's "specialness"
mirrored American exceptionalism in the Cold War. Created in the aftermath of
the 1956 Suez Crisis, Exodus became the dominant narrative of Israel's birth but
is haunted by the Palestinian narrative of the Nakba.
Hosted by: International Forum for US Studies
http://cas.illinois.edu/events/millercom.aspx
In conjunction with: Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
Department of English, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, Program in Jewish
Culture and Society, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
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