"This study provides a useful survey of contemporary Palestinian
culture through a reading of the relationship between literature
and land. Drawing on the methods of both geography and literary
criticism, it traces the evolution of what Raja Shehadeh has called
a 'Palestinian "land rhetoric"' from the late 19th century through
the Intifada conflict." -- Choice
"A struggle between two memories" is how Palestinian poet Mahmud
Darwish describes the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
Within this struggle, the meanings of land and home have been
challenged and questioned, so that even heaps of stones become
points of contention. Are they proof of ancient Hebrew settlement,
or rubble from a bulldozed Palestinian village? The memory of these
stones, and of the land itself, is nurtured and maintained in
Palestinian writing and other modes of expression, which are used
to confront and counter Israeli images and rhetoric. This struggle
provides a rich vein of thought about the nature of human
experience of place and the political uses to which these
experiences are put.
In this book, Barbara McKean Parmenter explores the roots of
Western and Zionist images of Palestine, then draws upon the work
of Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, and other writers to trace how
Palestinians have represented their experience of home and exile
since the First World War. This unique blending of cultural
geography and literary analysis opens an unusual window on the
struggle between these two peoples over a land that both divides
them and brings them together.
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