The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781316501863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 245 str.

Bashir Abu-Manneh

Opis

The first study in English to chart the development of the Palestinian novel in exile and under occupation from 1948 onwards.

Recenzje

'… the work takes a bold stride in what might be a new direction in Palestinian literary study - to look beyond the nation at what Palestinian literature means for the world, and not just the homeland.' Nora Parr, Arab Studies Journal

Spis treści

Introduction: theory, history, form; 1. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's self-sacrificers: realism, revolt, and renewal; 2. Ghassan Kanafani's revolutionary ethics; 3. Emile Habiby: capture and cultural escape in The Pessoptimist (1974); 4. Sahar Khalifeh: radical questions and revolutionary feminism; 5. Tonalities of defeat and Palestinian modernism; Epilogue: remembrance after defeat: Gate of the Sun (1998).