Book contents
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins Revisited
- Part II Major Concepts
- Chapter 7 The Shock of Relation
- Chapter 8 Strangers and Brothers
- Chapter 9 Incommensurability, Inextricability, Entanglement
- Chapter 10 Radical Black Poetics and South–South Movement
- Chapter 11 Remembering the Uses of Diaspora, or Palestine Is Still the Issue
- Chapter 12 Refugee Ecologies
- Chapter 13 Diaspora and Detention
- Part III Readings in Genre, Gender, and Genealogies
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 11 - Remembering the Uses of Diaspora, or Palestine Is Still the Issue
from Part II - Major Concepts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2023
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins Revisited
- Part II Major Concepts
- Chapter 7 The Shock of Relation
- Chapter 8 Strangers and Brothers
- Chapter 9 Incommensurability, Inextricability, Entanglement
- Chapter 10 Radical Black Poetics and South–South Movement
- Chapter 11 Remembering the Uses of Diaspora, or Palestine Is Still the Issue
- Chapter 12 Refugee Ecologies
- Chapter 13 Diaspora and Detention
- Part III Readings in Genre, Gender, and Genealogies
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter begins from a concern about the extent to which “diaspora” is one of a number of concepts that threatens to be swallowed up by the newly-dominant institutional category of “world literature,” and goes on to discuss what stands to be lost as a result, as well as how we might proceed differently. Forgetting diaspora, it argues, impoverishes our attempts to think literature in an internationalist framework; this contribution is thus an attempt to assist in the act of remembering. In particular, the chapter makes a case for reading Palestinian literature diasporically as a move toward a world literature that reads work not just “globally,” but with an eye toward internationalism.
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- Diaspora and Literary Studies , pp. 199 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023