Palestinian Political Prisoners: Identity and community

by Nashif **NFA**; Esmail

• ISBN13: 9780415444989
• ISBN10: 0415444985
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is a comprehensive study of Palestinian political prisoners held by the Israelis and charts the development of this community and its role within the politics of the ongoing conflict.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction: slippery position(s), unsettled setting(s)	p. 1
The position(s)	p. 2
The research	p. 3
The community	p. 10
The book	p. 14
Notes on gender, language, and politics	p. 17
Claiming the colonial	p. 21
History of the conflict	p. 22
The war of June 1967: recognizing colonialism in Palestine	p. 26
Conclusion	p. 37
Building the community: the body, the material conditions, and the communication networks	p. 38
Introduction	p. 38
The history as told and written	p. 41
The body of the community	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 70
Structures of a revolutionary pedagogy: instituting signification	p. 72
Introduction	p. 72
Writing the history of the prison	p. 78
Dissecting the practices from the arrested social body	p. 90
Some concluding remarks	p. 94
The textual formation of subjects: interrogation as a rite of passage	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
A manual for the novice	p. 102
Tracing the discursive formations	p. 121
Conclusion	p. 129
The hidden intellectual: lecturing political captivity	p. 131
Introduction	p. 131
Lecturing captivity: agency, self and linguistic activities	p. 135
Textual strategies and structures: the architecture of the lecture	p. 141
The intellectual colonial junctures of Palestine: the unbearable lightness of resolutions	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 162
The Three Domains: the aesthetic representing and forming of the national	p. 164
Introduction	p. 164
The context of novelizing the hidden	p. 167
Tracing the threads of the novelistic practices	p. 174
The possibility of world vision(s)	p. 196
Conclusion	p. 200
Conclusion	p. 202
Notes	p. 208
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 226
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