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Post-Millennial Palestine Literature, Memory, Resistance Edited by Rachel Gregory Fox and Ahmad Qabaha LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS First published 2021 by Liverpool University Press 4 Cambridge Street Liverpool L69 7ZU Copyright © 2021 Liverpool University Press The right of Rachel Gregory Fox and Ahmad Qabaha to be identified as the editors of this book has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data A British Library CIP record is available ISBN 978-1-80034-827-1 cased ISBN 978-1-80034-744-1 epdf Typeset by Carnegie Book Production, Lancaster To Lindsey If not for you, we would never have come together to create this book Contents Contents Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors xi Foreword: Under ‘Suffering’s Glow’: Palestinian Writing after Oslo 1 By Bashir Abu-Manneh Introduction 9 By Rachel Gregory Fox and Ahmad Qabaha Part I: Palestinian Archives: Catastrophe, Exile, and Life Writing 1 Late Style as Resistance in the Works of Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, and Mourid Barghouti 31 By Tahrir Hamdi 2 A ‘Rich Fabric of Some Sort, Which No One Can Fully Comprehend [or] Fully Own’: Levantine Remains in Memoirs by Edward Said, Jean Said Makdisi, and Wadad Makdisi Cortas 47 By Lindsey Moore 3 The Exile’s Memory and the Chronotope in Ghada Karmi’s Return: A Palestinian Memoir 67 By Ahmad Qabaha viii Post-Millennial Palestine 4 Snapshots of Solidarity: Anthologizing Palestinian Life Writing 83 By Sophia Brown Part II: Palestinian Aesthetics: Icons, Haptics, and Palimpsests 5 Confronting the Mythic? Najwan Darwish and Post-Millennium Palestinian Poetry 103 By Sarah Irving 6 Enduring Palestine: Haptics, Violence, and Affect in Adania Shibli’s Touch 119 By Michael Pritchard 7 ‘I Can Only Get There Now on the Rafts of Memories’: Palimpsestic and Genealogical Memories in Susan Abulhawa’s Novels 135 By Rachel Gregory Fox Part III: Palestinian Horizons: Endings and Beginnings, or Taking Flight 8 Killing God to Find Palestine ‘after the End of the World’ in Adania Shibli, Mahmoud Amer, and Maya Abu al-Hayyat 155 By Nora Parr 9 Unfinished Work: Anticolonial Pedagogy in Selma Dabbagh’s Out of It 173 By Tom Sperlinger 10 Wingwomen: Towards a Feminocentric Poetics of Flight in Twenty-First Century Palestinian Creative Consciousness 191 By Anna Ball Works Cited 209 Index 225 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements We would like to thank the team at Liverpool University Press, especially Chloe Johnson, for all their support, which has made this collection possible. We are also grateful to the reviewers who have read this work across its many stages for seeing its potential, and for their generous and constructive feedback. This collection would not be anything without our amazing contributors. We cannot thank them enough for all the hard work they have put into developing this book. They have produced what, we think, amounts to a necessary and critically perceptive interro- gation of contemporary Palestinian literature. We particularly want to acknowledge the number of contributors to this collection who are early career researchers (like ourselves)—their commitment to helping produce this book, in spite of the precarity that comes from often last-minute, fixed-term, and/or part-time academic job contracts is highly appreciated by us and, we hope, our readers. Thank you to Bashir Abu-Manneh for agreeing to write the Foreword for this collection. We are grateful to him for his time, generosity, and enthusiasm towards the project. Special thanks are also due to Lindsey Moore, to whom this collection is dedicated. She supervised both of us through the course of our PhD research, and continues to provide guidance and support as we take on the next stages of our academic and professional careers. We are indebted to her for the advice and feedback she has offered on the production of this collection, from its earliest stage. Thank you to Zawyeh Gallery for giving us permission to use Nabil Anani’s Mother’s Embrace as part of the cover of this book. We feel it ix x Post-Millennial Palestine speaks to the themes of the book, invoking Palestinian heritage, cultural memory, and resilience. We would also like to thank the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) for contributing funding towards the purchase of this image. Rachel Gregory Fox would like to thank her colleagues at Lancaster University, UK, who have provided her with a supportive work environment in which to develop this collection as both PhD student and, later, post-doctoral teaching staff. She is also thankful to her colleagues at QMUL for their warm welcome to the department in September 2019, and their kindness and encouragement. Rachel would also like to thank Ahmad for joining her in this venture—it would have been impossible to attempt it alone. Rachel is forever grateful to her mother and brother for their continued love and support. Lastly, Rachel is thankful to her husband, Alan, who she had the privilege of marrying while in the process of working on this book. Ahmad Qabaha would like to thank his colleagues at An-Najah National University, Palestine, for their encouragement and motivation. They showed a huge interest in this collaborative work and their courtesy inspired him to go through this mountainous journey. Ahmad would also like to reciprocate Rachel with his gratitude; undoubtedly, Rachel’s commitment and dedication is the cornerstone of the completion of this project. Lastly, Ahmad feels indebted to his parents, siblings, wife, and naughty baby for their emotional support and love, which stimulate his interest in conducting research. Notes on Contributors Notes on Contributors Bashir Abu-Manneh is Reader in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, and author of The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present (2016) and Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913–1939 (2011). He is also editor of a collection of essays on Edward Said entitled After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2018). Anna Ball is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms, Literatures, and Cultures at Nottingham Trent University. She specializes in women’s writing, film, and art from the contemporary Middle East, and also works on questions of gender, agency, and representation in relation to cultures of forced migration. Her monograph, Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective, was published with Routledge in 2012. With Karim Mattar, she co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and, following a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2019, she is shortly to publish her next monograph, Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination: Transcultural Movements (Routledge, forthcoming). Sophia Brown is an Associate Research Fellow in the Department of English, Theatre, and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2018, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Kenyon Institute, East Jerusalem. Her PhD, a study of exilic Palestinian life writing in English, was awarded in 2017 by the University of Kent. She has published journal articles on Egyptian women’s blogs, the narration xi
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