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The book of Gaza : a city in short fiction
Discover the city of Gaza through its short stories. Bringing together a dozen of Palestine's greatest modern prose writers, this anthology sets contemporary stories against the backdrop of one of the world's most talked-about cities, presenting them in English translation for the first time. Together, these stories will enable English-speaking readers to go beyond the global media coverage, and enter into the daily life of ordinary characters struggling to live with dignity in what is effectively the world's largest prison.
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Gaza Weddings
Twin sisters Randa and Lamis live in the besieged Gaza Strip. Inseparable to the point that even their mother cannot tell them apart, they grow up surrounded by the random carnage that characterizes life under occupation. Randa, who wants to be a journalist, writes to record the devastation around her, taking pictures of martyred children. Meanwhile, their beloved neighbor Amna quietly converses with all those she has lost, as she plans the wedding of Lamis and her son Saleh. With their menfolk almost entirely absent, it is the women who take center stage in this poignant novel of resilience, determination, and living against the odds.
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Ronit & Jamil
In this adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Ronit, an Israeli girl, lives on one side of a fence. Jamil, a Palestinian boy, lives on the other side. Only miles apart but separated by generations of conflict--there is much more than just the concrete blockade between them. Their fathers work in a distrusting but mutually beneficial business arrangement, a relationship that brings Ronit and Jamil together. And lightning strikes. The kind of lightning that transcends barrier fences, war, and hatred.
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Living in Death: The New Dystopian Reality of Israeli Settler Colonialism in Gaza
Abstract The contemporary case of settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel generates debates about the different types of violence – physical, territorial, and mental – experienced by the Palestinians. For more than 15 years, the Gaza Strip has been under blockade and isolated from the other Palestinian territories and the world. This reality has led to interpretations of Gaza as a laboratory, where remote-controlled weapons and the limits of human survival are tested. This makes Gazans use expressions such as ‘slow death’ or ‘living death’ to describe their lives. This article analyses six short stories from the science fiction book ‘Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba’ (2019) to investigate how the Israeli settler colonialism impacts Palestinian fictional production on Gaza. We argue that the persistence of the Nakba in the Palestinian present through continued expulsions, destruction and assassinations by Israel has made life an everyday dystopia. Furthermore, it made Palestinians’ imaginations regarding their future no longer utopian dreams of liberation, but dystopian and cyclical nightmares of confinement and death. Living eternally in the nightmare, as observed in Palestinian artistic productions, works as a colonial counterrevolutionary strategy. In this bleak reality, Gazans are left with the alternative of ‘living in death.’ Resumo O caso contemporâneo de colonialismo por povoamento em Palestina/Israel gera debates sobre os diferentes tipos de violência – física, territorial e mental – sofridos pelos palestinos. Por mais de 15 anos, a Faixa de Gaza tem estado sob bloqueio e isolada dos outros territórios palestinos e do mundo. Essa realidade levou a interpretações de Gaza como um laboratório, onde armas controladas remotamente e os limites da sobrevivência humana são testados. Isso faz com que os moradores de Gaza usem expressões como ‘morte lenta’ ou ‘morte em vida’ para descrever suas vidas. Este artigo analisa seis contos do livro de ficção científica ‘Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba’ (2019) para investigar como o colonialismo israelense impacta a produção ficcional palestina sobre Gaza. Argumentamos que a persistência da Nakba por meio de expulsões, destruições e assassinatos por Israel tornou a vida uma distopia cotidiana. Ademais, fez com que a imaginação dos palestinos em relação ao futuro não fosse mais sonhos utópicos de libertação, mas pesadelos distópicos e cíclicos de confinamento e morte. Viver eternamente no pesadelo, como observado nas produções artísticas palestinas, funciona como uma estratégia colonial contrarrevolucionária. Nessa realidade sombria, os moradores de Gaza têm a alternativa de ‘viver morrendo’.
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To Boldly Remember: Memorials and Mnemonic Technologies from Star Trek’s Vision to Israeli Commemoration
This article examines memory and monuments in the science fiction Star Trek franchise as a lens for understanding commemoration technologies and how futuristic visions of memorials anticipated real ones, especially during times of conflict. To understand the cultural reciprocity of sci-fi television and contemporary commemoration of war and trauma, we investigate the interactive website produced by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Kan, titled Kan 7.10.360, which commemorates the victims of the 7 October 2023 Hamas massacre of civilians, soldiers, and policemen in Israel’s Gaza Envelope region. The 7.10.360 website employs advanced technologies to create what we identify as a digital “counter-monument.” By applying the concept of metamemorial science fiction relating to the Shoah, investigating its victims’ commemoration and examining the globital turn in memory work, we demonstrate that the Kan project realizes digital mnemonic practices engaged in Star Trek. We argue that the renowned series performs and anticipates three aspects of globital memory work and novel digital commemoration, also prevalent in the Kan 7.10.360 website: the personalization of memory using images; televisual testimony or documentation that mediates personal experience; and the display of objects that symbolize quotidian aspects of the victims’ lives.
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Stelae, Elephants, and Irony: The Battle of Raphia and Its Import as Historical Context for 3 Maccabees
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The opening verses of 3 Maccabees set the story in the aftermath of the Battle of Raphia (217 bce); the significance of this historical setting has been overlooked. The Battle of Raphia is intimately related to the narrative at large in at least three ways. First, 3 Maccabees advocates for a counter-tradition to a stele tradition that arises out of Ptolemy's victory at Raphia. Second, the story reworks the famous incident of Ptolemy's elephant retreat at Raphia into a tale of praise for the God of the Jews. And finally, the book is invested with the irony already present in the historical realities of Ptolemy's short-lived victory.
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The Psychosis of Permanent War
In this no-holds-barred essay, formerNew York TimesMiddle East correspondent and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges examines how the United States’ staunch support provides Israel with impunity to visit mayhem on a population which it subjugates and holds captive. Notwithstanding occasional and momentary criticism, the official U.S. cheerleading stance is not only an embarrassing spectacle, Hedges argues, it is also a violation of international law, and an illustration of the disfiguring and poisonous effect of the psychosis of permanent war characteristic of both countries. The author goes on to conclude that the reality of its actions against the Palestinians, both current and historical, exposes the fiction that Israel stands for the rule of law and human rights, and gives the lie to the myth of the Jewish state and that of its sponsor, the United States.
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Masques et mascarades dans Romola par George Eliot : la traversée des apparences
Between opacity and transparency, exposition and dissimulation, the viewer's gaze is blocked by illusionist devices that lure it. Masks and masquerades dramatize the lie of appearances. What is at stake is not just the mask, easily detectable because codified, of social conventions. Neither is it only the exhibited mask of carnivals. What is at stake is the mask as simulacrum, as a riddle to be deciphered testifying to the intention to deceive and manipulate. In Romola, the deceiver's mask is the privileged instrument of treachery. It works on the mode of prestidigitation in that it relies on the displacement of attention, drawing the viewer's gaze on a spectacular, yet spurious gesture, while the real action lies somewhere else. It proceeds of a trick or an alternate game of presence and absence. Identifying the mask so as to make it fall, revealing the invisible mask so as to turn it into a recognizable object, contribute to reestablishing the dramatic illusion and the awareness of the interplay between reality and fiction. The spectator must then be on the lookout for cracks in falsely transparent surfaces so as to unmask the traitor. This concept of apparition or exposition of cracks in the mask is illustrated by Piero di Cosimo's painting, which lays bare the true character of Tito, the traitor. What is visible obviously has a major capacity for dissimulation. It partakes of the phenomenon of subjection as defined by Didi-Huberman. It makes things spectacular, exposed to gazes, while putting them underneath (sub-jectio), dissimulating them under the viewer's gaze and therefore establishing a tension between depth and visibility. Masks, make-up and artifices create multiple layers in what is visible. What can be seen and what can be deciphered no longer coincide, therefore threatening the ambition of transparency claimed by realist fiction.
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The banana zone of Santa Marta: the planters of the 'Green gold'
ABSTRACT IN FRENCH: Dans l'empire de la United Fruit, la Zone Bananière de Santa Marta s'est distinguée par le nombre important des planteurs locaux. Ceux-ci sont d'autre part au coeur du drame majeur de l'histoire de la Zone, la grève de 1928. Complétée par les témoignages et les chroniques sur la grève, l'historiographie permet de connaître assez bien ce groupe de planteurs mais, dans un registre qui va de la tragédie à la farce, le récit de fiction contribue aussi à cette connaissance. // ABSTRACT IN SPANISH: En el imperio de la United Fruit, la Zona Bananera de Santa Marta se distinguió por el importante número de los productores locales. Estos tuvieron además un papel central en el gran drama de la historia de la Zona, la huelga de 1928. Completada por los testimonios y las crónicas sobre la huelga, la historiografía permite conocer bastante bien ese grupo de productores pero, con enfoques que van desde lo trágico hasta lo grotesco, el relato de ficción también contribuye a ese conocimiento. // ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: Within the United Fruit's empire, Santa Marta's Banana Zone had become famous for its large number of local planters. Besides, these same planters where in the heart of the mayor tragedy of the Zone's history: the 1928 strike. Complemented by evidences and chronicles of the strike, historiography permits to get quite well acquainted with this group of planters but, in a register leading from tragedy to farce, literary fiction provides also a good contribution to this knowledge. Reprinted by permission of Presses Universitaires du Mirail
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