Giving Voice to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature

by Barbara McKean Parmenter

Book Overview

"A struggle between two memories" is how Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish describes the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Within this struggle, the meanings of land and home have been challenged and questioned, so that even heaps of stones become points of contention. Are they proof of ancient Hebrew settlement, or rubble from a bulldozed Palestinian village? The memory of these stones, and of the land itself, is nurtured and maintained...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029276555X
• ISBN13: 9780292765559
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"