Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968
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- ISBN 9781836744450
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ghassan Kanafani's remarkable extended essay, Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968 is an unyielding act of cultural and political endurance. Writing in the wake of Israel's devastating territorial expansion in 1967, Kanafani elaborates his theory of resistance literature and offers a visceral account of life under occupation. Translated for the first time into English by one of the greatest living translators from Arabic to English, Tarif Khalidi, Kanafani's essay offers one of the sharpest social and political analyses of life in Palestine in this early period of occupation.
In the two decades following the Nakba, Palestinian writers undertook the grueling task of waging cultural struggle in order to protect their language, culture, and heritage. In addition to Kanafani's groundbreaking essay, the book includes a selection of poetry, prose, and dramatic writing curated by Ghassan Kanafani himself. Bringing together writing from Mahmud Darwish, Hanna Abu Hanna, and Samih al-Qasim, among many others, Kanafani's essay and the accompanying pieces stand as a defiant declaration of cultural survival in the wake of Israeli expansion.
In the two decades following the Nakba, Palestinian writers undertook the grueling task of waging cultural struggle in order to protect their language, culture, and heritage. In addition to Kanafani's groundbreaking essay, the book includes a selection of poetry, prose, and dramatic writing curated by Ghassan Kanafani himself. Bringing together writing from Mahmud Darwish, Hanna Abu Hanna, and Samih al-Qasim, among many others, Kanafani's essay and the accompanying pieces stand as a defiant declaration of cultural survival in the wake of Israeli expansion.
Ghassan Kanafani remains one of the most important figures in the history of Arab literature. Born in 1936 in Acre, Palestine, he lived in exile from 1948, displaced by the Nakba. He was killed at thirty-six - assassinated, along with his teenage niece, in a car bombing carried out by Mossad in Beirut in July 1972. A novelist, playwright, and political theorist, he is the author of Men in the Sun, Returning to Haifa, four other novels, and six short story collections. His political works published in English include On Zionist Literature (2022) and The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine (2023).
