Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623717469 ISBN 13: 9781623717469

Publisher: Olive Branch Press, 2023

Synopsis

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 candour 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.

About this title

About the Author

Penny Johnson is the associate editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly. Raja Shehadeh is the author of several highly-acclaimed books, including Palestinian Walks, winner of the Orwell Prize, and We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir.

Edition details

• Publisher: Olive Branch Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1623717469
• ISBN 13: 9781623717469
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh