Modern Palestinian Literature

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Essay 1 (1,500 words) due on Friday, Week 7 of Term 2

Virtual Presentation (10-15 minutes), due 7 April

Essay 2 (1,500 words), due 7 May

Week 1: Palestine, Palestianness, Palestinian Experiences

Edward Said, 'On Mahmoud Darwish'

A Commemoration: The Contributions &amp; Poetry of Samih al-Qasim, (1939-2014)

Samih al-Qasim and the language of revolution

Victims of a Map: bilingual poetry anthology

اشد من الماء حزناً

Mahmoud Darwish, My Mother, ID Card [English]

Mahmoud Darwish To my mother [Arabic]

Darwish_Bitaqa Hawiyyeh [Arabic]

Letter3 Darwish to Al-Qasim [English]

Samih Al-Qasim poetms [English and Arabic]

Darwish/Qasim Letters [Arabic]

Darwish/Qasim Letters [Arabic]

Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities, "Introduction" [Excerpt 46 pages]

Bassam Frangieh.“Modern Arabic Poetry: Vision and Reality” [29 pages, recommended]

Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity [Chapter 7]

TimCresswell- Place: A Short Introduction [excerpts, 36 pages]

• Barbara Parmenter, Giving Voice to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature [excerpts, 26 pages]

Bachelard_ The poetics of space

Week 2: Siege, Resistance, Revolution

Habibi - pessoptimist [chs1-10]

Mutasha'il [Pessoptimist-Arabic, chs1-10]

“Invisibility, Impossibility: The Reuse of Voltaire's Candide in Emile Habiby's Sa'eed the Pessoptimist”

Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel

"A Narration of 'Deterritorialization': Imil Habibi's The Pessoptimist"

Week 3: Gender and Nation

New Women - Fleichmann

Baron- Egypt as Woman

Short film of Man and the Clock

Samira Azzam, "Time and Man" [Arabic]

Samira Azzam "Time and Man" [English]

Amy Zalman: Gender and the Palestinian Narrative of Return

Tasnim's Power Point

Week 4: Exile from Exile, Madness and Nostalgia

Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel

Tasnim's Power Point

Angelika Neuwirth on Darwish--Homeland in Words

Week 5: Writing in Hebrew, Impersonating the Other

Rhetoric of Violence - Malek [chs 1-2]

Anton Shammas

Minor Literature

Lital Levy, Poetic Tresspass, Chapter 1. Hebrew Bedouin to Israeli Arabic

Nation as Territory

Summary of main points

Week 7: Ravages of Time, Unrecognizable Homeland

عائد إلى حيفا [Return to Haifa- Arabic]

Return to Haifa [English]

Levinas philosophy page

Ian Campbell, "Blindness to Blindness."

Ariel Moriah Sheetri, "Call me Dov/Khaldun"

Points for Class Discussion

Link to Joseph R Farag, Politics and Palestinian Literature in Exile

Week 8: Writing Self, Writing Nation

Captive revolution : Palestinian women's anti-colonial struggle within the Israeli prison system

Rihla Jabaliyya, Rihla Sa'ba (Arabic text)

A Mountainous Journey 1

A Mountainous Journey 2

A Mountainous Journey: Diary and Poems

Salam Mir, "Political Engagement: The Palestinian Confessional Genre

M Bakir Alwan, "Contemporary Palestinian and Jordian Literature: Fractured Vision"

Ariel M Sheetrit, "The Poetics of the Poet's Autobiography: Voicings and Mutings in FT's Narrative Journey"

Terri DeYoung, "The Disguieses of the Mind: Recent Palestinian Memoirs."

Week 9: Literary Networks, Cosmopolitanism

Literary Life in Cairo -- Are These Our Streets?

Ashour Interview on Tantouriyyah

A Commemoration: The Contributions & Poetry of Samih al-Qasim, (1939-2014)

11 Stars & Indian [Arabic]