Muna Abu Eid

Mahmoud Darwish (eBook, ePUB)

Literature and the Politics of Palestinian Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle. His poems resonate across the entire Arab world and, more than any other single figure perhaps since the death of Yasser Arafat, he represents a unifying figurehead for Palestinian national aspirations. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Darwish in English, Muna Abu Eid examines the poet's intellectual status on two fronts - both national and public - and offers a critical assessment of Darwish's national and political life. Based on Darwish's own writings and interviews with people who worked with him and situating Darwish's poetry within the wider context of Palestinian struggles inside Israel, this book explores the influence of Darwish's life and work in the Palestinian territories and in the diaspora: from the destruction of his Galilee village and displacement of his family during the 1948 Nakba; to his return and 'infiltration' back into the homeland and the struggle for survival inside Israel; to his internal and external exiles in Haifa, Moscow, Cairo, Beirut, Tunisia, Paris and even Ramallah.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786720139
• Artikelnr.: 47257554

Autorenporträt

Muna Abu-Eid is a Palestinian academic and independent researcher in Arabic literature, Palestinian history and politics. She has published numerous articles in newspapers, popular magazines and scholarly journals and her areas of interest include Palestine and the Palestinian question, nationalism, culture and resistance, national poets and issues of nation-building. She holds a PhD from Bar-Ilan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction  Chapter One: On the Role of the Intellectual Chapter Two: The
Politics of Displacement and Exile Chapter Three: Literature, Identity, and
Nation Building Chapter Four: The Road to Power Chapter Five: Attitudes,
Ideology and Principles  Chapter Six: On Peace and War Conclusion
Bibliography Index