Gaza as Metaphor – New Release
Read my chapter (“Fighting Another Day: Gaza’s Unrelenting Resistance” — Section 3: “Narrating Gaza”) in this excellent, soon to be released book by HURST Publishes and Oxford University Press, entitled: “Gaza as Metaphor”. Edited by two superb intellectuals, Helga Tawil-Souri and Dina Matar, the anthology includes the work of a number of well-respected authors and journalists including: Haidar Eid, Said Shehadeh, Mouin Rabbani, Salman Abu Sitta, Selma Dabbagh, Ilan Pappé, Nimer Sultany, Sara Roy and many others..
Book description: “Open-air Prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, ‘Gaza’ immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a host of metaphors also recall Gaza: Crisis, Exception, Refugees, Destitution, Tunnels, Persistence. This book brings together journalists, writers, doctors, academics and others, who use metaphor to record and historicise Gaza, to contextualise its everyday realities, interrogate its representations and provide an understanding of its real and symbolic significance. Offering perspectives from residents and observers, these essays touch on life and survival, the making of the Gaza Strip and its increasing isolation, the discursive and visual tools that have often obscured the real Gaza, and explore what Gaza contributes to our understanding of exception, inequality, dispossession, bio-politics, necro-power and other terms which we rely on to make sense of our world. The contributors reveal the manner of Gaza’s historical and spatial creation, to show that Gaza is more than simply a metaphor for far-away humanitarian disaster, or a location of incomprehensible violence — it is above all an inseparable part of Palestine’s past, present, and future, and of the condition of dispossession.”
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