Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration; 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)
1 Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's self-sacrificers: realism, revolt and renewal2 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); Bibliography; Primary; Secondary; Index
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
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The first study in English to chart the development of the Palestinian novel in exile and under occupation from 1948 onwards.
Palestinian novel.
Palestinian novel.
9781107136526
9781316479902
Arabic fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Arabic fiction-- Palestine-- History and criticism.