Unacknowledged Kinships ¿ Postcolonial Studies And The Historiography Of Zionism Av Stefan Vogt, Derek Penslar, Arieh Saposnik

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