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Subject(s)

• Arabic literature—Palestine—History and criticism [Browse]
• Arabic literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Feminism and literature—Arab countries [Browse]
• Postcolonialism in literature [Browse]
• Motion pictures—Palestine [Browse]

Series

• Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 42 [More in this series]
• Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures [More in this series]

Summary note

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

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215), filmography (p. [217]) and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgements; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index

ISBN

• 1-136-22814-4
• 0-203-09866-8
• 1-283-86155-0
• 1-136-22815-2

OCLC

• 820787678
• 891157773
• 823285712

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203098660

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