Palestinian Literature

3 or 4 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course surveys concepts and strategies of liberation within the Palestinian literary tradition, and includes poets and authors working from historic Palestine as well as the diaspora, in a variety of languages, including Arabic, English and Hebrew. Texts include poetry, memoirs, fiction and film by M. Darwish, I. Hammad, J. I. Jabra, G. Kanafani, Adania Shibli, and others.