For us it did not begin in For that generation of Palestinians that was born or grew up in exile, it never began with that galaxy of events that culminated in the creation for our people of a new, frightening world of non-being. Rather the metamorphosis in our national psyche and the controlling images of our active mythology occurred when we had already acquired a past of our own. It occurred when the Palestinian, from the isolation of his world, asked another world that stood with its back to him: who am I and what am I in the scheme of things that seemed to govern other people's lives but not mine? When a Palestinian became aware, along the evolutionary continuum of his consciousness, of that delicate correlation between his political reality and existential concerns, of that pitch in reality that bound his own present to his forefathers' past, the question ceased to bristle with self-pity and acquired historical acumen. For the Palestinian proceeded to ask not who am I, but who are we? Not what is my, but what is our place in history? Existence, hitherto governed by private reservoirs of energy and alienation, was now governed by a feeling that history was every man's milieu
Soul in Exile
Ways of Being Palestinian: Autobiography as Critical Emplotment in the Work of Fawaz Turki (Middle Eastern Literatures []: )
MIDDLE EASTERN LITERATURES Ways of being Palestinian: autobiography as critical emplotment in the work of Fawaz Turki Christopher Iacovetti Divinity School, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA ABSTRACT KEYWORDS Autobiography has become an increasingly prominent form of Palestinian literature since the s, giving rise to scholarly discussions about how best to read, interpret, and analyze Palestinian life narratives. Using the memoirs of Palestinian poet Fawaz Turki as an illustrative example, this article challenges a prevailing scholarly view that Palestinian narratives should be read and understood, before all else, as “counterdiscourse” to Zionism. However much this framework illuminates the colonial backdrop and testimonial potential of Palestinian life-writing, it risks flattening Palestinian autobiographies into a single national mold and framing Zionism as the central locus of Palestinian selfexpression. Mindful of these dangers, this article draws on the work of David Scott to argue that Palestinian autobiographies can be more fruitfully interp
Soul in Exile: Lives of a Palestinian Revolutionary
Poet and essayist Fawaz Turki begins his search for answers in the hallways of the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers. He then recalls his family&#;s flight into Lebanon when he was eight, childhood in a refugee camp and the streets of Beirut, and years spent in Australia, France, and the United States in search of his identity, both personal and national. In describing this journey, Fawaz Turki also relates the stories of family, friends, and comrades, those who fought the battles and those who walked away from them. Together, these episodes comprise a panoramic history of a generation formed in exile, of a homeless people caught in the violent storm of Middle East politics. | more…
The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile
&#;… arresting from the moment its pulsating lines begin to unfold. Fawaz Turki paints a powerful, moving picture of the tormented, alienated Palestinian living in exile… brilliant and remarkable in articulating the human dimension of the Palestinian grievance. He manages, like no other writer before him, to weave the Palestinian consciousness with skill
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