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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800032803321

Autore

Ball Anna

Titolo

Palestinian literature and film in postcolonial feminist perspective / / Anna Ball

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-22814-4

0-203-09866-8

1-283-86155-0

1-136-22815-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 42

Disciplina

892.7/0989274

Soggetti

Arabic literature - Palestine - History and criticism

Arabic literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - Arab countries

Postcolonialism in literature

Motion pictures - Palestine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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