The Palestinian Novel

From 1948 to the Present

AvBashir Abu-Manneh

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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What happens to the Palestinian novel after the national dispossession of the nakba, and how do Palestinian novelists respond to this massive crisis? This is the first study in English to chart the development of the Palestinian novel in exile and under occupation from 1948 onwards. By reading the novel in the context of the ebb and flow of Arab and Palestinian revolution, Bashir Abu-Manneh defines the links between aesthetics and politics. Combining historical analysis with textual readings of key novels by Jabra, Kanafani, Habiby, and Khalifeh, the chronicle of the Palestinian novel unfolds as one that articulates humanism, self-sacrifice as collective redemption, mutuality, and self-realization. Political challenge, hope, and possibility are followed by the decay of collective and individual agency. Genet's and Khoury's unrivalled literary homages to Palestinian revolt are also examined. By critically engaging with Lukács, Adorno, and postcolonial theory, questions of struggle and self-determination take centre stage.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-20
Mått:153 x 230 x 12 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:245
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316501863

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Bashir Abu-Manneh is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939 (2011).

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'… an original and ambitious contribution to the study of Palestinian literature. His is the first study to offer a truly formalist account - and critique - of Palestinian novels. And when so many scholars have retreated from criticism - from contentious claim-making in general - it is refreshing to see someone engaging in learned debate. Abu-Manneh reminds us that there are things at stake in the Palestinian novel, in its history, and in its reception.' Elliott Colla, Journal of Palestine Studies

Innehållsförteckning

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).