Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Foreword: “Under Suffering’s Glow: Palestinian Writing after Oslo.”
Bashir Abu-Manneh

Introduction
Rachel Gregory Fox and Ahmad Qabaha

Part I: Palestinian Archives: Catastrophe, Exile, and Life Writing
Chapter 1: “Late Style as Resistance in the Works of Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, and Mourid Barghouti.”
Tahrir Hamdi
Chapter 2: “A ‘rich fabric of some sort, which no one can fully comprehend [or] fully own’: Levantine Remains in Memoirs by Edward Said, Jean Said Makdisi, and Wadad Makdisi Cortas.”
Lindsey Moore
Chapter 3: “The Exile’s Memory and the Chronotope in Ghada Karmi’s Return: A Palestinian Memoir.”
Ahmad Qabaha
Chapter 4: “Snapshots of Solidarity: Anthologizing Palestinian Life Writing.”
Sophia Brown

Part II: Palestinian Aesthetics: Icons, Haptics, and Palimpsests
Chapter 5: “Confronting the Mythic? Najwan Darwish and Post-Millennium Palestinian Poetry.”
Sarah Irving
Chapter 6: “Enduring Palestine: Haptics, Violence, and Affect in Adania Shibli’s Fiction.”!!Michael Pritchard
Chapter 7: “‘I can only get there now on the rafts of memories’: Palimpsestic and Genealogical Memories in Susan Abulhawa’s Novels.”
Rachel Gregory Fox

Part III: Palestinian Horizons: Endings and Beginnings, or Taking Flight
Chapter 8: “Killing God to Find Palestine ‘after the end of the world’ in Adania Shibli, Mahmoud Amer, and Maya Abu al-Hayyat.”
Nora Parr
Chapter 9: “Unfinished Work: Anticolonial Pedagogy in Selma Dabbagh’s Out Of It.”
Tom Sperlinger
Chapter 10: “Wingwomen: Towards a Feminocentric Poetics of Flight in Twenty-First Century Palestinian Creative Consciousness.”
Anna Ball

Works Cited

About the Author

Rachel Gregory Fox is a Lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Ahmad Qabaha is an Assistant Professor in Postcolonial and Comparative Literature at An-Najah National University