Overview

Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance confronts how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and resistance in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the twenty-first century; prolonged spatial and temporal dispossession; and the continued deterioration of the peace process. Insofar as the articulation of memory in (post)colonial contexts can be viewed as an integral component of a continuing anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, in tracing the dynamics of conveying the memory of ongoing, chronic trauma, this collection negotiates the urgency for Palestinians to reclaim and retain their heritage in a continually unstable and fretful present. The collection offers a distinctive contribution to the field of existing scholarship on Palestine, charting new ways of thinking about the critical paradigms of memory and resistance as they are produced and represented in literary works published within the post-millennial period. Reflecting on the potential for the Palestinian narrative to recreate reality in ways that both document it and resist its brutality, the critical essays in this collection show how Palestinian writers in the twenty-first century critically and creatively consider the possible future(s) of their nation.

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Author:   Rachel Gregory Fox ,  Ahmad Qabaha
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
ISBN:  

9781802075373

ISBN 10:   1802075372
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword: “Under Suffering’s Glow: Palestinian Writing after Oslo.” Bashir Abu-Manneh Introduction Rachel Gregory Fox and Ahmad Qabaha Part I: Palestinian Archives: Catastrophe, Exile, and Life Writing Chapter 1: “Late Style as Resistance in the Works of Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, and Mourid Barghouti.” Tahrir Hamdi Chapter 2: “A ‘rich fabric of some sort, which no one can fully comprehend [or] fully own’: Levantine Remains in Memoirs by Edward Said, Jean Said Makdisi, and Wadad Makdisi Cortas.” Lindsey Moore Chapter 3: “The Exile’s Memory and the Chronotope in Ghada Karmi’s Return: A Palestinian Memoir.” Ahmad Qabaha Chapter 4: “Snapshots of Solidarity: Anthologizing Palestinian Life Writing.” Sophia Brown Part II: Palestinian Aesthetics: Icons, Haptics, and Palimpsests Chapter 5: “Confronting the Mythic? Najwan Darwish and Post-Millennium Palestinian Poetry.” Sarah Irving Chapter 6: “Enduring Palestine: Haptics, Violence, and Affect in Adania Shibli’s Fiction.”!!Michael Pritchard Chapter 7: “‘I can only get there now on the rafts of memories’: Palimpsestic and Genealogical Memories in Susan Abulhawa’s Novels.” Rachel Gregory Fox Part III: Palestinian Horizons: Endings and Beginnings, or Taking Flight Chapter 8: “Killing God to Find Palestine ‘after the end of the world’ in Adania Shibli, Mahmoud Amer, and Maya Abu al-Hayyat.” Nora Parr Chapter 9: “Unfinished Work: Anticolonial Pedagogy in Selma Dabbagh’s Out Of It.” Tom Sperlinger Chapter 10: “Wingwomen: Towards a Feminocentric Poetics of Flight in Twenty-First Century Palestinian Creative Consciousness.” Anna Ball Works Cited

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Rachel Gregory Fox is a Lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Ahmad Qabaha is an Assistant Professor in Postcolonial and Comparative Literature at An-Najah National University

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