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SoAS Palestine Studies Joseph R. Farag is Assistant Professor of ‘Fixing its creative gaze on the short story – a form with its own Despite, or even because of, their tumultuous Arab Studies at the University of Minnesota. peculiar logic, pacing, and poise – this book is not only the history history, Palestinians are renowned for being GP He holds a PhD from Queen Mary University prolific cultural producers, creating many of the of a genre, nationally inflected, but a genre through which the eo of London where he was also Lecturer in Arab world’s most iconic works of literature. in three great watersheds of Palestinian history (nakba, naksa, and nL Middle Eastern Literary Studies. Farag has di particular, the Palestinian short story stands out et also held a EUME postdoctoral fellowship at intifada) are movingly told ... 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Farag employs an interdisciplinary Palestinian context. traces the development of the Palestinian short story and anA approach to examine the political function of L d literary texts and the manner in which cultural highlights the significance of historical catastrophes, political E rS production responds to crucial moments in commitment, and bold aesthetic innovation in the emergence and et Palestinian history. Drawing from the works of s i flourishing of this long-neglected genre. 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F ArAG makes an original contribution to the subject and forcefully fulfils its promise: showing the ways in which the SA of exilic identity and subjectivity in Palestinian h PoLi t iC S AnD literature. this book offers the opportunity to historian and the political analyst, and their respective disciplines, o t r engage with literary works as well as to learn can benefit from deeper study of Palestinian literary production.’ tU from a literary account of history, and will be of Sr Ayman A. El-Desouky, Senior Lecturer in Modern Arabic and t PA L E St i n iAn interest to students and scholars of both Arabic oE Comparative Literature, SoAS, University of London r i literature and Middle East Studies. yn Li tErA tUrE E x Jacket image: A Palestinian fighter holds a kitten in the i L i n Ex iL E refugee camp of Burj Al Barajneh near Beirut, 8 July 1988. E © Aline Manoukian Jacket design: Simon Levy JoSEPH r. Gender, Aesthetics and ISBN 978-1-78453-655-8 FArAG resistance in the Short Story www.ibtauris.com CEntrE For PALEStinE StUDiES 9 781784536558 JosephR.FaragisAssistantProfessorofArabStudiesattheUniversity ofMinnesota.Heholdsa PhDfrom Queen MaryUniversity ofLondon wherehewasalsoLecturerinMiddleEasternLiteraryStudies.Faraghas also helda EUME postdoctoral fellowship atthe ForumTransregionale Studien in affiliation with the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Freie Universita¨t Berlin. His research examines the intersection of history, politics and cultural production in the modern Arab World, with particular emphasis on the Palestinian context. ‘Fixingitscreativegazeontheshortstory – aformwithitsownpeculiar logic, pacing, and poise – this book is not only the history of a genre, nationallyinflected,butagenrethroughwhichthethreegreatwatersheds of Palestinian history (Nakba, Naksa, and Intifada) are movingly told. In Farag’s confident and well-argued study, Sartrean “literature engage” takestheform,alternately,ofsurrealistphantasmagoria,bluntmilitancy, andasearing,melancholicinteriority. Asurprisingandinformativetake on thevaried literaryportraitsofanticolonialism’s true acidtest.’ Timothy A. Brennan, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota ‘Inthisbeautifullywritten,textured,andthoughtfulbook,Faragtracesthe developmentofthePalestinianshortstoryandhighlightsthesignificance of historical catastrophes, political commitment, and bold aesthetic innovationintheemergenceandflourishingofthislong-neglectedgenre. A must read for anyone interested in Palestinian literature and cultural production.’ Laleh Khalili, Professor of Middle East Politics, SOAS, University of London ‘Farag’s excellent choice of focus on the short story, one of the most complex and yet understudied genres, furthers discussion of the aestheticthrustoftheform,itsplacewithinthelargerliteraryhistoryin Palestinian and Arabic literature, and its comparability to the force of poetic practices as the celebrated genre of resistance. Written in a flowingandengagingstyle,thestudyultimatelyandforcefullyfulfilsits promise: showing the ways in which the historian and the political analyst,andtheirrespectivedisciplines,canbenefitfromdeeperstudyof Palestinian literary production.’ Ayman A. El-Desouky, Senior Lecturer in Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS, University of London SOAS PALESTINE STUDIES This book series aims at promoting innovative research in the study of Palestine, Palestinians and the Israel–Palestine conflict as a crucial component of Middle Eastern and world politics. The first ever Western academicseriesentirelydedicatedtothistopic,SOASPalestineStudiesdraws fromavarietyofdisciplinaryfields,includinghistory,politics,media,visual arts,socialanthropology,anddevelopmentstudies.Theseriesispublished undertheacademicdirectionoftheCentreforPalestineStudies(CPS)atthe LondonMiddleEastInstitute(LMEI)ofSOAS,UniversityofLondon. Series Editor: Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, Chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies Board Advisor: HassanHakimian,DirectoroftheLondonMiddleEastInstituteatSOAS Current and Forthcoming Titles: Palestine Ltd.: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory, by Toufic Haddad PoliticsandPalestinianLiteratureinExile:Gender,AestheticsandResistancein theShort Story, by Joseph R. Farag PalestinianCitizensofIsrael:Power,ResistanceandtheStruggleforSpace,by Sharri Plonski POLITICS AND PALESTINIAN LITERATURE IN EXILE Gender, Aesthetics and Resistance in the Short Story J R. F OSEPH ARAG Centre for Palestine Studies Published in association with the Centre for Palestine Studies, London Middle East Institute Publishedin2017by I.B.Tauris&Co.Ltd London•NewYork www.ibtauris.com Copyrightq2017JosephR.Farag TherightofJosephR.Faragtobeidentifiedastheauthorofthisworkhasbeenasserted bytheauthorinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,oranypartthereof, maynotbereproduced,storedinorintroducedintoaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted, inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutthepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisher. Referencestowebsiteswerecorrectatthetimeofwriting. SOASSeriesonPalestineStudies2 ISBN:9781784536558 eISBN:9781786721808 ePDF:9781786731807 AfullCIPrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary AfullCIPrecordisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:available TypesetinGaramondThreebyOKSPrepressServices,Chennai,India PrintedandboundbyCPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY For my parents, Ramez and Hanaa CONTENTS Series Foreword xi Acknowledgements xiii Note on Transliteration xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Nakba Narrating the Nakba: History, Testimony and Re-Membering 18 Form and Function in Arabic Literature: Realism and the Nation 23 Samira Azzam 34 Ghassan Kanafani’s Pioneering Modernism 57 Chapter 2 Naksa Nakba to Naksa 75 The Palestinians and the Rise and Fall of Pan-Arabism 76 Refugees to Revolutionaries: Palestinian Identity of Resistance and its Antecedents 82 The Reclamation of Dignity and the Battle of Karama 89 Commitment to Resistance 91 Ghassan Kanafani’s ʿAn al-rija¯l wa-al-bana¯diq 96 Resistance and its Discontents: Yahya Yakhlif’s Nu¯rma¯ wa rajul al-thalj 114 Internal Resistance and the Gender Politics of Patriarchy and Modernism: Liana Badr’s ‘Ana¯ urı¯d al-naha¯r’ 128

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Despite, or even because of their tumultuous history, Palestinians are renowned for being prolific cultural producers, creating many of the Arab world’s most iconic works of literature. In particular, the Palestinian short story stands out for its unique interplay between literary texts and the po
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