People’s Literature of Palestine/Israel

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An Anthology of Anticolonial and Socialist Writing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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For the first time in English translation, A People’s Literature in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial and Socialist Writing after 1948 brings together stories, poems, and essays by Palestinian and Arab Jewish intellectuals who created a shared anti-Zionist literary movement after the Nakba and the establishment of Israel in 1948. At the heart of the movement was Adab al-Sha'b ('A People's Literature'), popular writing-from-below published in the Communist periodicals al-Jadid and al-Ittihad. Located in prisons, border villages, transit camps and Palestinian areas under military rule, these works capture the linked struggles of Palestinians, Arab Jews, and Left organisers during the 1950s and early 1960s.This collection shares intimate and imaginative histories of everyday life under occupation and displacement. Personal accounts of partition, ethnic cleansing and expulsion of village communities, and colonial policies in the transit camps reflect an early alternative history to Zionism.Stories of border murders, strikes, covert action, organising and solidarity link local struggles to global anticolonial and socialist movements. Writers including Emile Habiby, Sami Michael, Tawfiq Zayyad, Hana Ibrahim, Shimon Ballas and Jabra Nicola, all included in this anthology, drew inspiration from socialist realism and the currents of Third World liberation from Egypt to Vietnam to reimagine literature as a form of radical history and imagination.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-31
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
MedarbetareNassar,Maha
ISBN9781399521925

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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/.

Preface by Maha Nassar IntroductionPART I: A ManifestoHumanity is the Subject and the Aim of Literature - Emile HabibyPART II: Stories of the BorderDalia: A story from the core of reality - Emile HabibyInfiltrators - Hanna IbrahimMendelbaum Gate - Emile HabibyTwo women - Sami MichaelBlood and Spit - Jamal MusaPART III. Stories of the Transit CampThis is My Father - Sami MichaelHe Loved Life - Shimon BallasFire! - Sami MichaelBetween the Mud and the Huts - Shimon BallasPART IV. Stories of the VillageThe First Light - Hannah IbrahimThe Great Shadow - Sami MichaelA Love Destroyed - Police by NuriUm Suwwar - Muhammed NaffaOn The Night of Eid - Hannah IbrahimPART V. The Poetry FestivalFestival and Solidarity PoetryHarvest of Skulls - Tawfiq ZayyadHe Will Return - David SemahMy Brother Taqfiq - Davis SemahA Child of My People - Hanna Abu HannaPART VI. CommentaryThe Story We Want - Jabra NicolaImmigrant Writers - Sami MichaelReferencesTranslator Biographies