Title: Seeking Palestine : new Palestinian writing on exile and home /
Authors: Johnson, Penny; Shehadeh, Raja, 1951-
Publisher: Olive Branch Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Arabic essays Palestine.; Homeland in literature.; Palestine In literature
Abstract: Overview: How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine and a sharp escalation in Israeli state violence and accompanying Palestinian oppression? How can exile and home be written? In this volume of new writing, fifteen innovative and outstanding Palestinian writers-essayists, poets, novelists, critics, artists and memoirists-respond with their reflections, experiences, memories and polemics. Their contributions-poignant, humorous, intimate, reflective, intensely political-make for an offering that is remarkable for the candor and grace with which it explores the many individual and collective experiences of waiting, living for, and seeking Palestine. Contributors include: Lila Abu-Lughod, Susan Abulhawa, Suad Amiry, Rana Barakat, Mourid Barghouti, Beshara Doumani, Sharif S. Elmusa, Rema Hammami, Mischa Hiller, Emily Jacir, Penny Johnson, Fady Joudah, Jean Said Makdisi, Karma Nabulsi, Raeda Sa'adeh, Raja Shehadeh, Adania Shibli.
Contents: Introduction : Neither homeland nor exile are words / Penny Johnson -- Exile/home: my country: distant as my heart from me : Memories of an un-Palestinian story, in a can of tuna / Susan Abulhawa -- A song from Haifa / Beshara Doumani -- Portable absence: my camp re-membered / Sharif S. Elmusa -- Pushing at the door: my father's political education, and mine / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Of place, time and language / Adania Shibli -- Home/exile: my country: close to me as my prison : The obsession / Suad Amiry -- Diary of an internal exile: three entries / Raja Shehadeh -- The driver Mahmoud / Mourid Barghouti -- Home and exile in East Jerusalem / Rema Hammami -- Right to wait: exile, home and return / Rana Barakat -- At home In what world?: a place to live and curse in : Palestine that never was: five poems and an introduction / Fady Joudah -- Becoming Palestinian / Jean Said Makdisi -- Onions and diamonds / Mischa Hiller -- Exiled from revolution / Karma Nabulsi.