Bashir Abu-Manneh

The Palestinian Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

The first ever English language history of the Palestinian novel from 1948 onwards that charts its development in exile and under occupation. It focuses on the work of four major Palestinian writers - Jabra, Kanafani, Habiby and Khalifa - alongside the work of writers from other cultures addressing Palestinian issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781107136526
• ISBN-10: 1107136520
• Artikelnr.: 44973986

Autorenporträt

Bashir Abu-Manneh is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939 (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: theory, history, 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).