Daniel Blanchard
Daniel is a teacher and candidate for a PhD in Comparative Literature. He researches racialization in the context of Zionist settler-colonial epistemology and its intersection with the “secular” constitution of the West. Daniel is a teacher and candidate for a PhD in Comparative Literature. He researches racialization in the context of Zionist settler-colonial epistemology and its intersection with the “secular” constitution of the West.
The Palestinian Jewish author celebrated an “exotic” hybrid of Arab and Jewish identity not in order to shift Zionism’s Orientalist premises or to intervene in the political tensions brewing because of it; Rather, Shami’s work was a protocol for racialization, and a significant contribution to Zionist settler-ideology, in its appropriation of Arabism.