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Trans/Intifada

The Politics and Poetics of Intersectional Resistance

Jegić, Denijal

American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 300

2019

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Abstract

This book explores political, cultural, and literary aspects of intersectional and transnational resistance articulated contemporarily and historically by Palestinian and Black American artists and activists. A historical and political survey examines the Nakba as a contemporaneous colonial epoch that is constantly reproduced through a multitude of oppressive policies which place Palestinians within the link between U.S. and Israeli hegemony, whose colonial violence has extended transnationally. Black and Palestinian expressions of mutual solidarity result from the location of their struggles within subaltern spaces. Drawing on intersectional approaches emanating from Black feminism and post-colonial theory, this study investigates written and spoken poetry, essays, and lyrics as interventions into imperialist and colonialist currents and as demands for revolutions that are conceptualized as an Intifada that transcends the original, Palestinian context.

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Cover Cover
Titel 3
Imprint 4
Table of Contents 5
1 Introduction 7
2 Palestinicide(s) – A Contemporary History of Zionism and the Nakba 27
2.1 Defining the Nakba 27
2.2 Zionist Settler-Colonialism 28
2.3 Ethnic Cleansing 44
2.4 Contemporary Colonialism and Disturbing Natives 54
2.4.1 The Nakba – A History of the Present 54
2.4.2 Colonial Violence 59
2.4.3 Erasure and Inscription 71
2.5 Perpetual War 83
2.5.1 Palestinian Responses 83
2.5.2 Mowing the Lawn or Removing the Topsoil? 85
2.5.3 Incitement and the Banality of Evil 94
2.5.4 The Question of Genocide 99
3 Palestine in U.S.-Israeli Similes 107
3.1 Imagined Arabs, Imagining Arabs – Orientalist Fantasies 108
3.2 American Zionism and U.S.-Israeli Exceptionalism 112
3.3 U.S.-Israeli Concepts of Peace and Terrorism 118
3.4 Palestine as a Laboratory 124
3.5 Arab America: From Inclusion to Marginalization 126
4 Black-Palestinian Solidarity 133
4.1 A History of Transnational Resistance and Solidarity 133
4.1.1 Palestine and the Third World 135
4.1.2 Palestine in the Black Power Movement 138
4.1.3 Black-Palestinian Intersections in Israel 148
4.1.4 South Africa Between Palestine and Israel 153
4.2 Contemporary Struggles 158
4.2.1 Wars on Drugs and Terror 158
4.2.2 Black Lives Matter 163
4.2.3 Hashtag Solidarity: The Gaza/Ferguson Moment 166
4.2.4 Statements of Solidarity 170
4.2.5 Black Lives in Israel 177
4.2.6 Jewish Solidarity and Resistance 181
5 Arts as Resistance 185
5.1 On Transnational Literature 185
5.2 The Artist as Activist 186
5.3 Black-Palestinian Transformations 190
5.4 Poetic Resistance: A Literary History 196
6 Literary Analysis 211
6.1 Humanization 211
6.2 Displacement, Home, and the Living Room 225
6.3 Contesting the U.S.-Israeli Alliance 235
6.4 Concentration Camps and Mass Incarceration 240
6.5 Feminist Responses 247
6.6 Transnational Remapping 255
6.7 Revolution as a Solution 268
7 Conclusion 275
Works Cited 287
Backcover 330