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Unruly Daughters to Mother Nation: Palestinian and Israeli First-person Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Dorit Naaman
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Abstract

This article examines the Israeli documentary My Land Zion and the Palestinian documentary Paradise Lost. Both films are critical autobiographical texts and in both, the woman filmmaker negotiates her emotional and ideological ties with her culture, history, and nation. Naaman proposes that by using the autobiographical genre and by engaging emotionally as well as rationally, the women filmmakers discussed offer a particular gendered position rebelliously outside nationalism and the place of women within it.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 17 - 32
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Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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