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ID166899
Title ProperIbrahim Nasrallah's Palestine Comedies
Other Title Informationliberating the Nation Form
LanguageENG
AuthorParr, Nora
Summary / Abstract (Note)Conceptually linked, noncontiguous, and undeniably national, Ibrahim Nasrallah's book series Al-milhat al-filastiniyya (The Palestine Comedies) breaks conceptual ground. Told across twelve volumes, the Comedies represents the long-called for Palestinian national novel, though in unconventional form. The series uses diverse literary devices, including intertextuality and the archetype of the twin, to demonstrate how formal innovations can redirect assumptions about what constitutes not only a national novel, but also a nation. The series reimagines relationships between space, time, and people, giving narrative shape to a community so often imagined as fragments. Abandoning the retrospective prerequisite of bounded sovereign space and homogeneous, linear time, the Comedies imagines a “nation constellation.” A close examination of two novels within the series, A'ras amna (2004) and Tifl al-mimhat (2000), shows how Palestinian relationships can be imagined outside existing national logics. It reads the constellation as an alternative nation form that can both encompass colonial frameworks and free the delimitation of Palestine from the dominance of power structures that only begin with the nation-state.
`In' analytical NoteJournal of Palestine Studies Vol. 38, No.3; Spring 2019: p.43-58
Journal SourceJournal of Palestine Studies 2019-06 48, 3
Key WordsPalestine ;  Nation ;  TWINS ;  Intertextuality ;  Ibrahim Nasrallah ;  Constellation