Palestine as a Position of Witnessing
A Conversation with Adania Shibli
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4770234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adania Shibli, Claudia Steinberg (0000-0002-5342-3344) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 80-82 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Literature Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0196-3570 • E-ISSN: 1945-8134 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wlt.2021.0013 |
| OpenAlex | W4251880662 |
| Language | EN |
In her novel Minor Detail, Palestinian author Adania Shibli sculpts—with trenchant words—a fragile memorial for a Bedouin girl, murdered and raped in the Negev desert in 1949 ( WLT , Summer 2020, 87). The mostly silent drama unfolds under a glass dome of heat and hate. The reader gets a terribly close view of the perpetrator, while his victim remains elusive. And the teenage victim becomes only more fugitive in the second part of the book, when, more than half a century later, a woman feels compelled to search for her traces
Ancient history · Art · Conversation · Drama · Girl · Linguistics · Literature · Palestine · Political science · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |