The Art and Politics of Emile Habiby II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11661069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salam Mir (0009-0001-7448-8286, corresponding author), Salam Mir Salam Mir |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arab Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0271-3519 • E-ISSN: 2043-6920 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/arabstudquar.37.2.0142 |
| OpenAlex | W2391112457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
In The Secret Life of Saeed, the Pessoptimist , Emile Habiby (1922–1996) addresses the question of Palestinian historiography during the Mandate period through Al-Nakba of 1948 and the second defeat of the Arabs by Israel, in the 1967 June War. Having remained in what became Israel, the Palestinian writer tells the history from the Palestinian perspective and from the “insider's” perspective, to rehabilitate the misperceptions about Arabs and their story. This article will argue that The Pessoptimist , the Palestinian national epic, challenges the mono-vision of the Israeli/Western version that has disseminated myths about what occurred between 1947 and 1948. By inserting into the creative writing the oral history told by Palestinians to their children and grandchildren, and which had failed entry into the official Israeli/western version, Habiby's narrative sets the record straight regarding the labeling of Palestinian resistance fighters as “terrorists.” Constructing a history that refuses to lament, The Pessoptimist voices a distinct Palestinian voice, a dignified identity that claims agency for its own destiny
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Ancient history · Art · Destiny (ISS module · Historiography · Identity (music · Insider · Lament · Literature · Mandate · Mandatory Palestine · Mythology · Palestine · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Middle East Politics and Society
The politics of dispossession
The Palestinians and 1948
Palestine
Creativity in the Novels of Emile Habiby, with Special Reference to SaʿĪd the Pessoptimist
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited
Palestinian Identity
Palestinian Historiography
Palestinian Literature
The politics of dispossession
From The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |