Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Anna Ball is a Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies in the English Department and Centre for Postcolonial and Global Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK. Klappentext Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners including Michel Khleifi , Liana Badr, Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman, Mona Hatoum and Suheir Hammad, and reveals a hitherto unrecognized trajectory in gender-consciousness under development in the Palestinian imagination from the start of the twentieth century. The book explores how these works resonate with questions of power, identity, nation, resistance, and self-representation in the Palestinian imagination more broadly, and asks how these gender-conscious narratives transform our understanding of Palestine's struggle for postcoloniality. Working at the cusp of postcolonial, feminist and cultural enquiry, Ball seeks to open up vital new directions in the interdisciplinary study of Palestine. Zusammenfassung This book explores the varied forms of gender politics that have surfaced in Palestinian literature and film since 1948. Ball investigates the potential of postcolonial feminist theory to illuminate the ways in which Palestinian artists have negotiated the intersections between national and gender politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Permission to Re-Narrate 1. En-Gendering Palestine: Narratives of Desire and Dis-Orientation 2. Women Writing Resistance: Between Nationalism and Feminism 3. Masculinity in Crisis: From Patriarchy to (Post)Colonial Performativity 4. Bodies Beyond Boundaries? Transitional Spaces and Liminal Selves 5. Imagining the Transnational Feminist Community Conclusion: Postcolonial Feminist Futures

Product details

• Authors: Anna Ball, Anna (Nottingham Trent University Ball, Ball Anna
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2012
• EAN: 9780415888622
• ISBN: 978-0-415-88862-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures; Routledge Research in Postcolo; Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, ART / Film & Video, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Middle East, Films, cinema, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature