Crime of Nationalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Kraig Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Criminal Enterprise ◽  
National Project ◽  
National Movement ◽  
National Autonomy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Palestinian National Movement ◽  
National Domain

The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born in the Great Revolt of 1936–39, a period of sustained Arab protest against British policy in Palestine. In this book, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the novel case that the key to understanding the rebellion lies in the "crimino-national" domain—a hitherto neglected area of overlap between criminological and nationalist discourses, and the primary terrain upon which the war of 1936–39 was fought. As Kelly elaborates, apart from national autonomy, the Palestinian rebels’ primary objective was to repudiate the British framing of their national movement as a criminal enterprise. The rebels therefore appropriated the institutions and even the aesthetics that betokened London’s legal title to Palestine, donning rank-specific uniforms and erecting their own postal, prison, and justice systems. In thus establishing the rudiments of a state, Palestinians shifted the criminal mantle onto their opponents: the British and the Zionists. Crime, in this sense, was the central preoccupation of the Palestinian national project, as it likely was of other such projects on the fringe of empire. Kelly's analysis amounts to a new history of the rebellion, and it offers important lessons for studies of interwar nationalism and insurgency more broadly.

The Narrative, Its Components and Its ‘Novelisation’

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-188
Author(s):  
Marlé Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Georg Lukacs ◽  
Repeated Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Battle Scenes ◽  
Georg Lukács

This chapter represents a narratological breakdown of the tale. Drawing on the theory of Seymour Chatman, Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukács, I discuss the tale and its relationship to the ʿUdhrī love tale, the popular epic and the novel in terms of its discourse, setting, characters and events. I argue that the tale has a plot with a ‘homophonic’ texture, whereby a ‘melody’ of singular events (such as the abduction, torture and rescue of Laylā) overlays a ‘drone’ of repeated events (namely battle scenes). I conclude with a comparison of the tale with its twentieth-century novelistic adaptation and a discussion of what the comparison reveals about the pre-history of the Arabic novel.

For an Eco-Archive

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-68
Author(s):  
John Patrick Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Haitian Literature ◽  
Boat People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter continues to build the conceptual and historical frame of the eco-archive. It argues that contemporary Haitian literature records the transformation of the environment and accumulates and inscribes overlapping temporalities of past and present, like an archive. The first part reviews a range of Caribbean and Haitian thought on the environment, broadly understood, and considers key moments of Haitian literary history of the twentieth century. Earlier forms and paths of migration and refuge, from the sugar migration up to the journeys of “boat people,” inform and historicize literary representations of the earthquake and its aftermath. The chapter then carries out close readings of a selection of René Philoctète’s poetry and his novel, Le peuple des terres mêlées, a text that depicts the “Parsley Massacre” of 1937. It draws out Philoctète’s eco-archival writing and contends that the novel foregrounds the environmental ethos of the border in opposition to Trujillo’s genocidal nationalism.

scholarly journals Maja Haderlap: la historia del Ángel del olvido

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branka Kalenić Ramšak
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
International Success

The latest novel in Slovenian wants to talk about previously ignored or inadequately presented historical issues. Among such topics is also the history of the Slovenians of Carinthia in Austria that throughout the twentieth century have gone through many individual and collective traumas. The writer Maja Haderlap has achieved international success with her novel Engel des Vergessens (The Angel of Oblivion), published in 2011 in German, in 2012 in Slovenian. With the gesture of forgiveness she tries to contribute to the improvement of Austrian-Slovenian coexistence. The novel is autofictional text of fragmented discourse that is part of the current postmodernist narrative tendency.

scholarly journals To the History of Unfulfilled Plans of V. Zazubrin

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
E. N. Proskurina
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Protection

The article deals with two unrealized plans of the Siberian writer of the twentieth century V. Zazubrin. These are the novels “Sliver” and “Golden Ram”. The novel “Sliver” was written on the basis of the story of the same name created in 1923, devoted to the problem of the “red terror” in Siberia. The story was not accepted for publication either in Siberia or in Moscow because of the naturalism of the bloody plot. After that, Zazubrin took up her mess. Gradually, it grew into a novel. The writer read excerpts from it even at a meeting with the workers of the GPU in 1928. However, the manuscript of the work was lost. At present it is impossible to determine how the plot of “Sliver” has changed, what’s new in it by the author, in comparison with the published text of the story. The novel “Golden Ram” was to be the first part of the novel trilogy conceived by the writer. Of the three works, only one was created: the novel «Mountains». It was dedicated to the collectivization of the Altai. His Zazubrin represented the second part of the trilogy. The novel “Golden Ram” he intended to devote to the Mongolian theme. However, the protracted work on the “Mountains” did not allow this plan to be realized, despite the fact that Zazbrin had a lot of material about Mongolia based on a trip there and acquaintance with well-known experts of Mongolia A. V. Burdukov and B. Ya. Vladimirtsov. Thus, if in the sphere of the unrealized idea, the novel «Sliver» can belong to the field of both unfinished and unfinished work, then the novel «Golden Ram» refers to the unwritten works. In both cases the implementation of creative ideas was hindered by the tragic outcome of Zazubrin’s fate, who was arrested in 1937 and soon shot in the basements of Lubyanka. Perhaps the materials for both works are stored in the special protection of the archives of the NKVD and are still waiting to be discovered in the wings.

Revolutionary Solitude: Edward Said and Najla Said

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahia Abdel Nasser
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Arab American ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
American Family ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Palestinian National Movement

This chapter examines Arab Anglophone memoirs by focusing on Edward Said’s Out of Place: A Memoir (1999) and Najla Said’s Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family (2013). Out of Place traces Edward Said’s cultural and literary journey from Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt to his education in the US. Edward Said’s self-representation rests on the dichotomy of his solitude during his formation within a history of dispossession and his career. The chapter rethinks Out of Place through the burgeoning of the Palestinian national movement and Said’s lifework. The chapter also compares Edward Said’s youth in the Arab world and Najla Said’s Arab-American background, Said’s journey to the US and his daughter’s return to her roots, to arrive at a rethinking of the genre that migrates across languages and cultures.

Map-Making for Building the Palestinian Nation-State

2020 ◽  
pp. 170-195
Author(s):  
Christine Leuenberger ◽  
Izhak Schnell
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Aerial Photos ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Territorial Sovereignty ◽  
National Movement ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Palestinian National Movement

Throughout the 20th century, the rise of the Zionist national movement paralleled the strengthening of the Palestinian national movement. The struggle of the Israelis and the Palestinians over Palestine also manifested itself in the history of surveying and mapping, and their respective rights to do so. After the Hagannah looted the Survey of Palestine, the Palestinians were left with few cartographic resources. The lack of maps of their own weakened their negotiating position during peace negotiations with Israel. Yet, it was not until the 1993 Oslo Accords that Palestinians had a mandate to develop the territory under their jurisdiction. Their attempt to establish the State of Palestine went hand in hand with their effort to survey and map their territory. Consequently, in an effort to produce maps of their own, various governmental and non-governmental organizations produced maps for both building the nation and establishing a state. Logo maps of historical Palestine served to enhance national belonging; and cartographic reconstruction of pre-1948 Palestine retraced an Arab toponomy of the land. Concurrently, maps for building the State of Palestine delineated the territory in line with international law, strengthening Palestinians’ case for territorial sovereignty. Such maps are also vital for governance, land allocation, and development. The lack of territorial sovereignty, restricted access to aerial photos at a suitable scale (due to Israeli restrictions), largely donor-funded mapping projects as well as the lack of a national mapping agency, however, encumber Palestinian mapping efforts to establish a state, that could ascertain the rights of otherwise stateless people.

The Indulekha Moment and the Malayalam Literary Canon: On the Literary History of the Early Twentieth-century Novels in Kerala, South India

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sruthi Vinayan ◽  
◽  
Merin Simi Raj ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article analyses the politics of the literary canon of the early twentieth century Malayalam novels with particular focus on the impact of the novel Indulekha (1889) in literary history. The inception of novel as a literary genre is widely regarded as a point of departure for Malayalam literature leading to the development of modern Malayalam, thereby shaping a distinct Malayali identity. Interestingly, the literary histories which established the legacy of Malayalam prose tend to trace a linear history of Malayalam novels which favoured the ‘Kerala Renaissance’ narrative, especially while discussing its initial phase. This calls for a perusal of the literary critical tradition in which the overarching presence of Indulekha has led to the eclipsing of several other works written during the turn of the twentieth-century, resulting in a skewed understanding of the evolution of the genre. This article would explicate in detail, on what gets compromised in canon formation when aesthetic criteria overshadow the extraliterary features. It also examines how the literary history of early Malayalam novels shaped the cultural memory of colonial modernity in Kerala.

The quiet novel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Nathaniel Hawthorne ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of

This chapter maps the neglected history of quiet fictions and speculates about the potentiality of quiet as a literary aesthetic. It argues that the introvert was a disruptive presence in many nineteenth-century American texts, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville where quiet is associated with a failure to speak or an absence of mind. In the early twentieth century, quiet protagonists were integral to the ‘novel of consciousness’ favoured by many writers including Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust who equated quietness of character with a rich and dramatic internal life. Yet, as the century developed, quiet became marginalised within a Western culture that seemed increasingly defined by its noise and sources of overstimulation. This chapter therefore concludes with a discussion of quiet’s potentiality as both an aesthetic and as a mode of engagement with contemporary fiction.

scholarly journals Kristin Stapleton (2016). Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-160
Author(s):  
Ronald Torrance
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Chinese Literary Criticism ◽  
The City

There are few resources amongst contemporary Chinese literary criticism that manage to weave such insightful literary readings and incisive historical research as Kristin Stapleton’s Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family. The book accomplishes three feats, as set out by Stapleton in her introductory chapter, simultaneously incorporating a history of twentieth-century Chengdu (and its relevance to the developments in China during this period, more broadly) alongside the author’s biography of Ba Jin’s formative years in the city and the historiographical context of his novel Family. Such an undertaking by a less skilled author would have, perhaps, produced a work which simplifies the rich historical underpinnings of Ba Jin’s Family to supplementary readings of the novel, coupled with incidental evidence of the political and social machinations of the city in which its author grew up. Not so under Stapleton’s careful guidance. By reading the social and economic development of early twentieth-century Chengdu as much as its fictional counterpart in Ba Jin’s Turbulent Stream trilogy, Stapleton provides a perceptive reading of Family which invites the reader to consider how fiction can enrich and enliven our understanding of history.

scholarly journals Hunger, rebellion and rage: adapting Villette

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Poore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Film Adaptations ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
History Of

This chapter focuses on the critical fortunes and adaptation history of Charlotte Brontë’s final novel, Villette. It suggests that the critical reappraisal of Villette came too late in the twentieth century for the novel to become canonised in Hollywood film adaptations in the manner of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, while at the same time, the innumerable plays and films about the Brontë sisters’ lives have limited the opportunities for adaptations of the Brontës’ other works. This chapter investigates the specific challenges of adapting Villette for the screen, while also considering why, conversely, it has been adapted more frequently for stage and radio. It argues that the solutions that radio and theatre adapters have found can force us into a reassessment of Villette’s power and distinctiveness.

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