The Palestinian Novel ：From 1948 to the Present

Publication subTitle ：From 1948 to the Present

Author： Bashir Abu-Manneh  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9781316592861

Subject： I106 the classics and study

Keyword： 作品评论和研究

Language： ENG

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The Palestinian Novel

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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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Introduction: theory, history and form

1 Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s self-sacrificers: realism, revolt and renewal

Screams in a Long Night (1955)

Hunters in a Narrow Street (1960)

The Ship (1970)

In Search of Walid Masoud (1978)

2 Ghassan Kanafani’s revolutionary ethics

Palestinian Resistance Literature, 1948–1968

Men in the Sun (1963)

Returning to Haifa (1969)

Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love (1986)

3 Emile Habiby: capture and cultural escape in The Pessoptimist (1974)

4 Sahar Khalifeh: radical questions and revolutionary feminism

We are No Longer Your Slaves (1974)

Wild Thorns (1976)

Sunflower (1980)

5 Tonalities of defeat and Palestinian modernism

Adorno and praxis

A new Arab conjuncture

Jabra and Munif’s World without Maps (1982)

Jabra’s The Other Rooms (1986)

Occupied defeat in Khalifeh’s Gate of the Courtyard (1990)

Epilogue: remembrance after defeat – Gate of the Sun (1998)

Notes

Introduction: theory, history and 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)

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