Palestinian Novel - From 1948 to the Present

The first study in English to chart the development of the Palestinian novel in exile and under occupation from 1948 onwards.

List of contents

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).

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Bashir Abu-Manneh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781316501863
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50186-3
• No. of pages: 245
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Arabic, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Palestine, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form