Lital Levy

Bio

Lital Levy is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she teaches in and between literature, history, and critical theory, with specializations in Hebrew, Arabic, Middle Eastern, and Jewish studies. Her research encompasses literature and film from Israel/Palestine, the modern intellectual history of Arab Jews, the interface of Jewish literature and world literature, and comparative non-Western cultural modernity. Her book Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine (Princeton University Press, 2014) investigated the cultural politics of Arabic-Hebrew bilingualism and translation. She is currently working on two book projects: a history of Arab Jews in the modern Hebrew and Arabic renaissance movements, and a study of temporality in relation to the culture of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Contributions

Before Global Modernism: Comparing Renaissance, Reform, and Rewriting in the Global South

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Where and when does the story of “global modernism” begin, and what is its relationship to translation? It is perhaps axiomatic that twentieth-century literary modernism outside the European metropole typically emerged under colonial, semi-colonial or neo-colonial conditions and coincided with anti-colonial nationalist movements. Earlier, in the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries, intellectuals in vastly diverse non-Western locales had initiated wide-scale “renaissance” and “revival”...

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