Amanda Batarseh
Biographic Data
| ID | 6489668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Batarseh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Batarseh |
| SIGNATURE | BATARSEH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | ▪▪▪ |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9189-4139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Urgency of Radical Palestinian Epistemology
This article investigates radical Palestinian epistemology through a tradition of literary knowledge production as a dynamic and generative field. Drawing on Edward Said’s assertion that dominant narrative frameworks routinely render Palestinian existence illegible, the author argues that the struggle is not merely over narration or the right to narrate, but more fundamentally over the production and recognition of knowledge itself. Rather than s…
Centering Place in Tawfiq Canaan’s Literary Cartography
In the early-twentieth century, Palestinian physician and ethnographer Tawfiq Canaan published roughly forty-five studies on the cultural and narrative traditions of the largest section of Palestinian society, the fellaheen (peasantry). In this article, the author examines how Canaan’s expansive collection of stories related to holy sites across Palestine in Mohammedan Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine (1927) produces a provocative literary car…
Freedom to Imagine
Raja Shehadeh’s “Cartography of Refusal”
In the 1920s, the Palestinian ethnographer Tawfiq Kan‘an examined the physical and narrative construction of Palestinian space by cataloguing the living archive of Palestinian sanctuaries. His collection of narratives, imbued in the sacred space of the “shrine, tomb, tree, shrub, cave, spring, well, rock [or] stone” is suggestive of cultural anthropologist Keith Basso’s elaboration of “place-making” as learned from the Western Apache. Articulatin…
Re/Writing the Orient
Canto XXIII marks a tragicomic turning point in the Orlando Furioso , as the tension sustaining the titular character’s epic stoicism and romantic chivalry falls away to reveal a maniacal anti-hero. This canto’s staging of Orlando’s madness signals a significant extra-textual literary transition, unsettling the binary of medieval and classical literary traditions that Ariosto draws on, and suggesting a novel genre of literary expression. This art…
Raja Shehadeh’s “Cartography of Refusal”
In the 1920s, the Palestinian ethnographer Tawfiq Kan‘an examined the physical and narrative construction of Palestinian space by cataloguing the living archive of Palestinian sanctuaries. His collection of narratives, imbued in the sacred space of the “shrine, tomb, tree, shrub, cave, spring, well, rock [or] stone” is suggestive of cultural anthropologist Keith Basso’s elaboration of “place-making” as learned from the Western Apache. Articulatin…
Re/Writing the Orient
Canto XXIII marks a tragicomic turning point in the Orlando Furioso , as the tension sustaining the titular character’s epic stoicism and romantic chivalry falls away to reveal a maniacal anti-hero. This canto’s staging of Orlando’s madness signals a significant extra-textual literary transition, unsettling the binary of medieval and classical literary traditions that Ariosto draws on, and suggesting a novel genre of literary expression. This art…
Freedom to Imagine
Raja Shehadeh’s “Cartography of Refusal”
In the 1920s, the Palestinian ethnographer Tawfiq Kan‘an examined the physical and narrative construction of Palestinian space by cataloguing the living archive of Palestinian sanctuaries. His collection of narratives, imbued in the sacred space of the “shrine, tomb, tree, shrub, cave, spring, well, rock [or] stone” is suggestive of cultural anthropologist Keith Basso’s elaboration of “place-making” as learned from the Western Apache. Articulatin…
Centering Place in Tawfiq Canaan’s Literary Cartography
In the early-twentieth century, Palestinian physician and ethnographer Tawfiq Canaan published roughly forty-five studies on the cultural and narrative traditions of the largest section of Palestinian society, the fellaheen (peasantry). In this article, the author examines how Canaan’s expansive collection of stories related to holy sites across Palestine in Mohammedan Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine (1927) produces a provocative literary car…
On the Urgency of Radical Palestinian Epistemology
This article investigates radical Palestinian epistemology through a tradition of literary knowledge production as a dynamic and generative field. Drawing on Edward Said’s assertion that dominant narrative frameworks routinely render Palestinian existence illegible, the author argues that the struggle is not merely over narration or the right to narrate, but more fundamentally over the production and recognition of knowledge itself. Rather than s…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · History (2 works)