Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel

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Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print

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In the years after the Palestinian Nakba and the establishment of the state of Israel, Palestinian and Arab Jewish writers created a cultural front of opposition to Zionism in the Communist magazine al-Jadid. Thinkers such as Hana Ibrahim, Tawfiq Zayyad, Sami Michael, Emile Habiby, Jabra Nicola,and Shimon Ballas formed a new literary aesthetics; they drew on internationalist, anti-colonial and Arab left cultures to challenge the Zionist narrative with stories of their communities. In Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print, Hana Morgenstern brings this forgotten literary world and its radical commitments to collaboration to life for the first time, tracing its influences on decades of subversive writing, translation and print. She follows experiments in building cultures of solidarity under conditions of extreme inequality, illustrating a theory and practice of what she terms cultural co-resistance. Engaging in close historical and literary readings informed by a decade of archival and field work, the book demonstrates how co-resistance shapes and innovates oppositional literature and social imaginaries practised jointly by Palestinians and Israeli Jews in the region.Published alongside this volume is the companion anthology A People’s Literature of Israel/Palestine: Anticolonial and Socialist Writing, which presents the Arabic-language fiction, essays and poetry of this early anticolonial circle in English translation for the first time. The two books together document and interpret cultural co-resistance, situating it within the wider traditions of internationalism, anti-Zionism, and anti-imperialism.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-31
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399517904

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Dr Hana Morgenstern is Associate Professor in Global South and Middle Eastern Literatures at Cambridge University and a Fellow at Newnham College. She is a scholar of Middle Eastern literature and cultural histories of the Left, with a specialization in Palestine and Israel, including Jewish, Hebrew, Palestinian and Arabic literatures and literary cultures. Her upcoming book, Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print (EUP, 2026), reconstructs a history of anticolonial Palestinian and Jewish literary and cultural collaborations from the 1950s to the present. Morgenstern is co-founder and co-investigator of Revolutionary Papers, a transnational research collaboration on 20th-century anticolonial and anti-imperial periodicals (https://revolutionarypapers.org/). She is also co-founder of Archives of the Disappeared, an interdisciplinary initiative for the study of communities, social movements, spaces, and cultures destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence. Her recent articles appear in Journal of Levantine Studies, Modernism/modernity, and Radical History Review. More information at https://www.hanamorgenstern.org/.

List of FiguresIntroduction: Making a Culture Under SiegeAn Unthinkable ArchiveAnticolonial Ensembles and the Magazine as MethodThe Colonial BindHistories and Conceptions of Co-ResistanceCo-Resistance Before 1948Resistance Literature and Anticolonial SolidarityCultural Co-ResistanceOverview of ChaptersPart 1: Al-Jadid as Movement and Magazine1. Movement and Magazine: A Campaign for Cultural Reconstruction After the NakbaCultural Infrastructure and the MagazineThe Palestinian Communist VisionMarxist Cultural RootsLiterary Internationalism and the Arab Left in Palestine/IsraelPalestinians and Arab Jews: Arab Marxist Co-ResistanceBuilding a Culture from the Ashes: Kernels, Catalysts and InfrastructuresConclusion2. A People's Literature: Adab Al-Sha'b as News, History and Counter-NarrativeRevolutionary Prose Between Communism and Decolonisation: Social(ist) Realism as a Travelling GenreA People's Literature of Palestine/IsraelCo-Resistance and Historical Transmission in Ibrahim's "Infiltrators"Conclusion3. Anticolonial Form: Structural Critique and Historical Consciousness in the New Short StoryThe New Short Story: Lived Experience and the Machinery of PowerThe Border as a Problem SpaceAl-Ard Al-Haram: The Logics and Cosmologies of the BorderA Shock Country: The Arab Jew in the BorderlandsConclusionPart 2: Lineages of Cultural Co-Resistance4. The People's Camp: The Palestinian and Co-Resistant Roots of Mizrahi FictionCollective Storytelling Between Arabic and HebrewBurying the Palestinian Roots of Mizrahi LiteratureHa-Ma’abara: An Alternative ReadingThe Black Man: Race and Critique in the Transit Camp NovelConclusion5. What is Anticolonial Translation? Legacies and Practices of Bilingual Co-ResistanceColonial TranslationBinationalism and Translation in al-Jadid and Throughout the 20th CenturyTranslating the Nakba into HebrewBilingual Literary Aesthetics and LayoutsTranslation and Normalisation: Andalus Press and the Arab WorldCo-Resistant Paratexts and Translational DesignWall Breaking TranslationThe Form of Anticolonial Translation in MaktoobLiterary Networks, Archival Transmissions, and Bilingual PracticesConclusionEpilogue: Writing Against AnnihilationReferencesIndex