Poetry, Palestine and posthumanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4863771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hella Bloom Cohen (St. Catherine University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 361-379 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postcolonial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8790 • E-ISSN: 1466-1888 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688790.2021.1979742 |
| OpenAlex | W3213153160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Palestinian poets Nathalie Handal and Naomi Shihab Nye deploy nonhuman perspectives to mourn the lost homeland, reflecting on the Nakba (‘the Catastrophe’, the 1948 Palestinian exodus) as a site of environmental and social rupture. Representations of environmental ruptures as means of reflecting on the Nakba are not new to the Palestinian literary tradition. Understanding these ruptures by way of posthumanist appeals is, however, a radical gesture that we can locate at the centre of troubled attempts to merge, or at a minimum ‘converge’, the ‘respective preoccupations of ecocriticism and postcolonial studies’, to use Robert Spencer’s enunciation. Through close readings of the multispecies ecologies deployed by Nathalie Handal and Naomi Shihab Nye, this paper reconciles postcolonial Palestine with posthumanist Palestine, honouring the poets’ compositions of vistas of nonhuman animals and habitats, and studying their experimentation with interspecies kinship
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Ecocriticism · Homeland · Humanism · Kinship · Literature · Palestine · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Posthumanism · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |