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| 100 | 1 | _aMarcello Di Cintio | |
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_aPay No Heed to the Rockets: _bPalestine in the Present Tense |
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_aLondon: _bSaqi Books, _c2018 |
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_a221 p., _c23 cm |
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_a"A look at life in contemporary Palestine through the lens of its literary culture Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999 and, like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative he knew was one defined by unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of stories of oppression, exile, and occupation told over and over again. In the summer of 2014, during a brief lull in the bombing from Israel's Operation Protective Edge, photos emerged of a young Gazan girl in a green dress sifting through the rubble of her destroyed home. She was looking for her books. In Pay No Heed to the Rockets, Di Cintio travels to Palestine to find the girl. Using the form of a political-literary travelogue, he explores what literature means to modern Palestinians and how Palestinians make sense of the conflict between a rich imaginative life and the daily violence of survival. Taking the long route through the West Bank, into Jerusalem, across Israel and finally into Gaza, he meets with poets, authors, librarians, and booksellers to learn about Palestine through their eyes, and through the story of their stories. Di Cintio travels through the rich cultural and literary heritage of Palestine. It's there that he uncovers a humanity, and a beauty, often unnoticed by news media. At the seventieth anniversary of the Arab-Israeli War, Pay No Heed to the Rockets tells a fresh story about Palestine, one that begins with art rather than war."-- _cProvided by publisher. |
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_aArabic literature _zPalestine _xHistory and criticism |
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_aLiterature and society _zWest Bank |
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_aLiterature and society _zGaza |
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_aPalestinian Arabs _zWest Bank _xIntellectual life |
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_aPalestinian Arabs _zGaza _xIntellectual life. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aPalestinian Arabs in literature | |
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_aArab-Israeli conflict _xLiterature and the conflict |
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_aWest Bank _xSocial conditions |
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_aGaza _xSocial conditions |
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