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Foreigners Within and Innocents Abroad: Discourse of the Self in the Internationalization of American Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2004

MILETTE SHAMIR
MILETTE SHAMIR
Affiliation:
University of Tel Aviv, Israel.
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In November 2000, I was sitting in my study in Jaffa, a mixed Arab-Jewish town just south of Tel Aviv, leafing through the latest issue of Critical Inquiry. This was a few weeks into the renewed outbreak of violence in Israel/Palestine, an outbreak that with a single stroke cancelled out the laboriously earned achievements of the Oslo peace accords, claimed the lives of thousands, and all but shattered the hopes of peace activists on both sides. Jaffa itself was transformed overnight, its delicate tissue of Jewish-Arab coexistence torn by Arab riots, Jewish vigilantes, and brutal police intervention. I was therefore looking forward to the momentary escape offered by the American journal that had just arrived in the mail.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of American Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , December 2003 , pp. 375 - 388
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

A version of this paper was presented on June 2001 at Dartmouth College's American Studies Summer Institute. I thank Don Pease and Robyn Wiegman for their gracious invitation and hospitality. I also thank Elana Gomel, Bob Griffin, and Hana Wirth-Nesher for their encouragement and suggestions.