Spectral Palestinian

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Presence before Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Long before October 7, 2023, Palestinians haunted the West and its political categories. In this work of political theory, John Randolph LeBlanc reads works by Raja Shehadeh, Sari Nusseibeh, and Mahmoud Darwish to track the manifold ways existing political language and norms (e.g., rule of law, human rights, international law, the nation-state) failed to capture and address the experience of a people living permanently under conditions of occupation/domination. The Spectral Palestinian: Presence before Politics finds that their periodic use of the language of ghosts and haunting signals the relationship between Palestinian experience and the ‘promise’ of Western political language and its institutions. LeBlanc argues that this resulting sense of ‘spectrality’ constitutes an underexplored form of Palestinian self-awareness and agency. Initially, the specter is the product of the others’ fear, that is, nearly disembodied sites of violence carrying the threat of non-being. While reading the accounts of these Palestinians’ frustrating confrontations with the apparatuses and language of Western politics, LeBlanc finds the latent possibility of Palestinians taking hold of the specter’s power. Turning the spectral on its authors, the Palestinian defies a political language that has abandoned them and rejects the accompanying stigmas by standing fast in their spaces and fully appearing in the demand for human dignity.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-16
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt503 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666962147

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Occupied Body, Occupied Mind: Transforming Vulnerability in Shehadeh’s Occupation DiariesChapter 2: The Spectral Palestinian: Liminality and Politics in Darwish's In the Presence of AbsenceChapter 3: Collaboration, Resistance, and Implication in Sari Nusseibeh’s What is a Palestinian State Worth?Chapter 4: Joseph K. in the West Bank: Shehadeh’s Palestinian ‘Legal Narrative’ as Kafkaesque Chain NovelChapter 5: Breaking the Mirror of Sovereignty in Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence Chapter 6: Tracing Our Steps: Shehadeh’s Walks in a Disappearing Political Landscape ConclusionBibliography About the Author Index

Against a Zionist regime that shrinks Palestinian worldhood, The Spectral Palestinian foregrounds defiant Palestinian voices who poetically and materially refuse their containment and determination from without. Mobilizing Sari Nusseibeh, Mahmoud Darwish, and Raja Shehadeh in the struggle against settler erasure, this invaluable book shows clearly that Palestinians’ hunger for liberation persists, despite or even because of multiple setbacks, failures, and disclosures of vulnerability. While Israel’s genocidal project anxiously seeks to invisibilize the Palestinian by any means necessary, LeBlanc unearths in this figure’s haunting non-being, its spectrality, a subversive reality that relentlessly frustrates and upends Zionist frames of intelligibility, calling for new and inventive ways of thinking the predicament of Palestinians politically.