Recognizing the Stranger
On Palestine and Narrative
Published on 24. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-8021-6392-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University nine days before October 7, 2023. The text of Hammad's seminal speech and her afterword, written in the early weeks of 2024, together make up a searing appraisal of the war on Palestine during what seems a turning point in the narrative of human history. Profound and moving, Hammad writes from within the moment, giving voice to the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Recognizing the Stranger is a brilliant melding of literary and cultural analysis by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and a foremost writer of fiction in the world today"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
93 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-6392-9 (9780802163929)
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Person
Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost. The Parisian won a Palestine Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Betty Trask Award. She was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Enter Ghost won the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, among other prizes. The winner of the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and an O. Henry Prize, she has been awarded literary fellowships from the Cullman Center, the Lannan Foundation, and the Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination.