Introduction: permission to re-narrate -- En-gendering Palestine: narratives of desire and dis-orientation -- Women writing resistance: between nationalism and feminism -- Masculinity in crisis: from patriarchy to (post)colonial performativity -- Bodies beyond boundaries? transitional spaces and liminal selves -- Imagining the transnational feminist community -- Conclusion: postcolonial feminist futures
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
