A look at life in contemporary Palestine through the lens of its literary culture. Using the form of a political-literary travelogue, Di Cintio explores what literature means to modern Palestinians and how Palestinians make sense of the conflict between a rich imaginative life and the daily tedium and violence of survival.
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
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978-1-64009-255-6 (9781640092556)
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MARCELLO DI CINTIO is the author of four books, including the critically acclaimed Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, winner of the 2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Di Cintio's essays have been published in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller, and Afar. He lives in Calgary.
Introduction The Girl in the Green Dress
1 The Homeland Is Where None of This Can Happen
2 Whenever My Sore Heart Gets Hungry
3 To Breathe Life into a Name
4 I Do Not Have an Account in the Bank of Wars
5 If You Can Hear the Rockets, Then You Are Alive
6 She Is Oranges That Explode
Conclusion Her Name Is Maram
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