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Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel

Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print

Av Hana Morgenstern

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In the years after the Palestinian Nakba and the establishment of the state of Israel, Palestinian and Arab Jewish writers created a cultural front of opposition to Zionism in the Communist magazine al-Jadid. Thinkers such as Hana Ibrahim, Tawfiq Zayyad, Sami Michael, Emile Habiby, Jabra Nicola,and Shimon Ballas formed a new literary aesthetics; they drew on internationalist, anti-colonial and Arab left cultures to challenge the Zionist narrative with stories of their communities. In Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print, Hana Morgenstern brings this forgotten literary world and its radical commitments to collaboration to life for the first time, tracing its influences on decades of subversive writing, translation and print. She follows experiments in building cultures of solidarity under conditions of extreme inequality, illustrating a theory and practice of what she terms cultural co-resistance. Engaging in close historical and literary readings informed by a decade of archival and field work, the book demonstrates how co-resistance shapes and innovates oppositional literature and social imaginaries practised jointly by Palestinians and Israeli Jews in the region.Published alongside this volume is the companion anthology A People’s Literature of Israel/Palestine: Anticolonial and Socialist Writing, which presents the Arabic-language fiction, essays and poetry of this early anticolonial circle in English translation for the first time. The two books together document and interpret cultural co-resistance, situating it within the wider traditions of internationalism, anti-Zionism, and anti-imperialism.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-07-31
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 484 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399517904
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Dr Hana Morgenstern is Associate Professor in Global South and Middle Eastern Literatures at Cambridge University and a Fellow at Newnham College. She is a scholar of Middle Eastern literature and cultural histories of the Left, with a specialisation in Palestine and Israel, including Jewish, Hebrew, Palestinian and Arabic literatures and literary cultures. She is the author of Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print, editor of A People’s Literature of Palestine/Israel: An Anthology of Anticolonial and Socialist Writing (both Edinburgh University Press, 2026), and has published articles in in Journal of Levantine Studies, Modernism/modernity and Radical History Review. Morgenstern is co-founder and co-investigator of Revolutionary Papers, a transnational research collaboration on 20th-century anticolonial and anti-imperial periodicals. She is also co-founder of Archives of the Disappeared, an interdisciplinary initiative for the study of communities, social movements, spaces and cultures destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence.

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Hana Morgenstern's brilliant book is an incredible work of unlearning Zionist imperial temporality and its categories, and of refusing to abide by the brutal cut that the Nakba and the creation of "Israel" imposed on the life of Palestine, narrating a potential history of the entanglement between Palestinian voices and those of Jewish migrants from the Jewish-Muslim world. Morgenstern brilliantly rejects the Zionist premises of the categories of "Mizrahi" and "Mizrahi literature" in her careful, anticolonial readings of the literary activity around the journal al-Jadid, studying it not as a forgotten piece of history but as a still-urgent site of resistance — an emblematic example of what the Zionist West renders unthinkable. This is a must-read, especially today: amid the ongoing genocide fuelled by the West, such a study reminds us of the urgency of not letting the weaponry of AI write our histories.

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