The first study in English to chart the development of the Palestinian novel in exile and under occupation from 1948 onwards.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: theory, history, form; 1. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's self-sacrificers: realism, revolt, and renewal; 2. Ghassan Kanafani's revolutionary ethics; 3. Emile Habiby: capture and cultural escape in The Pessoptimist (1974); 4. Sahar Khalifeh: radical questions and revolutionary feminism; 5. Tonalities of defeat and Palestinian modernism; Epilogue: remembrance after defeat: Gate of the Sun (1998).
