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Book SynopsisPost-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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors
Foreword: “Under Suffering’s Glow: Palestinian Writing after Oslo.”
Bashir Abu-Manneh
IntroductionRachel Gregory Fox and Ahmad Qabaha
Part I: Palestinian Archives: Catastrophe, Exile, and Life WritingChapter 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 PalimpsestsChapter 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 FlightChapter 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
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