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The Book of Disappearance
What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who converses with his dead grandmother in the journal he left behind when he disappeared, and his Jewish neighbor, Ariel, a journalist struggling to understand the traumatic event. Through these perspectives, the novel stages a confrontation between two memories. Ariel is a liberal Zionist who is critical...
Diaspora and Literary Studies
Diaspora is an ancient term that gained broad new significance in the twentieth century. At its simplest, diaspora refers to the geographic dispersion of a people from a common originary space to other sites. It pulls together ideas of people, movement, memory, and home, but also troubles them. In this volume, established and newer scholars provide fresh explorations of diaspora for twenty-first century literary studies. The volume re-examines major diaspora origin stories, theorizes diaspora through its conceptual intimacies and entanglements, and analyzes literary and visual-cultural texts to reimagine the genres, genders, and genealogies of diaspora. Literary mappings move across Africa, the Americas, Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Pacific Islands, and through Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, Gulf, and Indian waters. Chapters reflect on diaspora as a key concept for migration, postcolonial, global comparative race, environmental, gender, and queer studies. The volume is thus an accessible and provocative account of diaspora as a vital resource for literary studies in a bordered world.
Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders
This collection gathers a variety of scholars representing various methodological perspectives and applying diverse critical lenses to analyze the idea of borders, borderlands, frontiers, and liminal space, as they are represented in literature and philosophy. The idea of the border and frontier is perhaps more important than ever: under the siege of COVID-19, with shattered illusions of a post-racial world, when a global effort is required as a response to a crisis that does not respect national or regional borders, we need to reconsider what frontiers and borders mean to us, and how to best understand them so that they do not divide, but point to areas of common knowledge, collective exper...
Being Palestinian
What does it means to be Palestinian in the diaspora?This collection of 100 personal reflections on being Palestinian is the first book of its kind. Reflecting on Palestinian identity as it is experienced at the individual level, issues of identity, exile, refugee status, nostalgia, belonging and alienation are at the heart of the book. The contributors speak in many voices, exploring the richness and diversity of identity construction among Palestinians in the diaspora.Included are contributions from Palestinians living in the Anglo-Saxon diaspora, mainly the UK and North America. They come from a variety of professional backgrounds: business people, lawyers, judges, fiction writers, poets,...
Buried in the Red Dirt
Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies and experiences during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Using transnational feminist reading practices of existing and new archives, the book moves beyond authorized frames of collective pain and heroism. Looking at their day-to-day lives, where Palestinians suffered most from poverty, illness, and high rates of infant and child mortality, Frances Hasso's book shows how ideologically and practically, racism and eugenics shaped British colonialism and Zionist settler-colonialism in Palestine in different ways, especially informing health policies. She examines Palestinian anti-reproductive desires and practices, before and after 1948, critically engaging with demographic scholarship that has seen Zionist commitments to Jewish reproduction projected onto Palestinians. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Conflicts
Liron Mor’s book queries what conflict means in the context of Palestine–Israel. Conflict has long been seen as singular and primary: as an “original sin” that necessitates the state and underwrites politics. This book problematizes this universal notion of conflict, revealing its colonial implications and proposing that conflicts are always politically constructed after the fact and are thus to be understood in their various specific forms. The book explores sites of poetic and political strife in Palestine–Israel by combining a comparative study of Hebrew and Arabic literature with political and literary theory. Mor leverages an archive that ranges from the 1930s to the present, ...
Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture
Isabelle Hesse identifies an important relational turn in British and German literature, TV drama, and film published and produced since the First Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993). This turn manifests itself on two levels: one, in representing Israeli and Palestinian histories and narratives as connected rather than separate, and two, by emphasising the links between the current situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the roles that the United Kingdom and Germany have played historically, and continue to play, in the region. This relational turn constitutes a significant shift in representations of Israel and Palestine in British and German culture as these depiction...
Magazin Buchkultur 208
Buchkultur 208 im Zeichen von Sommer, Sonne, Strand: Das Leben und der Zustand dieser Welt sind unterm Jahr an sich deprimierend genug, in den Ferien darf der Mensch Eskapismus – wir greifen dafür zu den vielversprechendsten neuen Kurzgeschichten und stellen in der Titelstory (Illustration: Jorghi Poll) die gelungensten zwischen Überraschung und Experiment vor; die Kalifornierin Nell Zink beschäftigt sich in ihrem Roman »Avalon« mit der Frage, wie man aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen kommend kreativ tätig werden kann in einer Welt, die nur auf Gewalt, Kitsch und Erfolg ermutigend zu reagieren scheint; und Thomas Ballhausen stellt anhand von drei Neuerscheinungen fest, dass Science Ficti...
Bittere Sonne
Saïd wird Ende der fünfziger Jahre in einem Bergdorf in Algerien für die damals florierende Autoindustrie in Frankreich angeworben. Nach fünf entbehrungsreichen Jahren kann er die Familie in seine Sozialwohnung in einem Vorort von Paris kommen lassen. Nadscha und ihre drei Töchter reisen voller Freude und Zuversicht in die neue Welt. Saïds älterer Bruder Kader war bereits mit Ève, einer Französin aus bürgerlicher Familie, verheiratet. Nachdem Nadscha nochmals schwanger geworden ist, beschließen sie und Saïd, das Baby Kader und Ève zu überlassen, da diese keine Kinder bekommen können. Doch unerwartet bringt Nadscha Zwillinge zur Welt. So werden Ève und Kader zu Daniels Eltern,...
