Emile Habiby and the Reinvention of the Palestinian Novel: The Pessoptimist in a Post-Realist Context
This article argues that Emile Habiby’s The Pessoptimist (1974) reinvented the Palestinian novel within a new literary genre, post-realism. Habiby’s masterpiece employs a complex, noncommittal narrative that in many ways defies, even eludes understanding, and this is its strength. In order to make t...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh Univ. Press
2023
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Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-20 |
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Postmodernism
B Emile Habiby B Israeli Communist Party B The Pessoptimist B Departure B Palestinian Resistance Literature B Zionism B Literary Realism B Palestinian Novel B Post-Realism |
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