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[Digital Poetics 4.12] Excerpts from “Palestinian Literature of Resistance Under Occupation, 1948-1968” by Ghassan Kanafani (trans. Hadeel Jamal)
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[Digital Poetics 4.12] Excerpts from “Palestinian Literature of Resistance Under Occupation, 1948-1968” by Ghassan Kanafani (trans. Hadeel Jamal)

Hadeel Jamal translates two excerpts from Ghassan Kanafani’s “Palestinian Literature of Resistance Under Occupation, 1948-1968” (1968) which provides analysis on the Palestinian artist’s role in resistance and its global dimension. The excerpts shed light on the deep emotional and cognitive solidarity between Palestinians and other oppressed peoples – which is as relevant now as ever.

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[Digital Poetics 4.2] Ophélimité: a specimen of emptiness by Keston Sutherland
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[Digital Poetics 4.2] Ophélimité: a specimen of emptiness by Keston Sutherland

This essay describes some of the early attacks on Marx by right-wing economists. It considers some of the consequences of the rejection of the labour theory of value and the development of an increasingly mathematized economic theory of marginal utility. What are the implications of this shift from a critical theory of the lives of producers to an econometric and nominalist theory of the habits of consumers? What does it mean for poetry?

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Digital Poetics 3.7 Beyond the Pale, or Crossing Borders with ‘The Books of Jacob’ by So Mayer
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Digital Poetics 3.7 Beyond the Pale, or Crossing Borders with ‘The Books of Jacob’ by So Mayer

So Mayer’s review of ‘The Books of Jacob’ looks at how Olga Tokarczuk explores Jacob Frank as a border-dweller; as a Jew who converted to both Islam and Christianity; as a Messiah who numinously embodies the Divine in the material plane; and as a patriarch whose body subversively expresses queer and trans desires.

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