A People's Literature of Palestine/Israel : An Anthology of Anticolonial and Socialist Writing

Morgenstern, Hana (EDT)/ Nassar, Maha (FRW)

Edinburgh University Press（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399521925

Full Description

For the first time in English translation, A People's Literature in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial and Socialist Writing after 1948 brings together stories, poems, and essays by Palestinian and Arab Jewish intellectuals who created a shared anti-Zionist literary movement after the Nakba and the establishment of Israel in 1948. At the heart of the movement was Adab al-Sha'b ('A People's Literature'), popular writing-from-below published in the Communist periodicals al-Jadid and al-Ittihad. Located in prisons, border villages, transit camps and Palestinian areas under military rule, these works capture the linked struggles of Palestinians, Arab Jews, and Left organisers during the 1950s and early 1960s.

This collection shares intimate and imaginative histories of everyday life under occupation and displacement. Personal accounts of partition, ethnic cleansing and expulsion of village communities, and colonial policies in the transit camps reflect an early alternative history to Zionism.

Stories of border murders, strikes, covert action, organising and solidarity link local struggles to global anticolonial and socialist movements. Writers including Emile Habiby, Sami Michael, Tawfiq Zayyad, Hana Ibrahim, Shimon Ballas and Jabra Nicola, all included in this anthology, drew inspiration from socialist realism and the currents of Third World liberation from Egypt to Vietnam to reimagine literature as a form of radical history and imagination.

Contents

Preface by Maha Nassar

Introduction

PART I: A Manifesto
Humanity is the Subject and the Aim of Literature - Emile Habiby

PART II: Stories of the Border
Dalia: A story from the core of reality - Emile Habiby
Infiltrators - Hanna Ibrahim
Mendelbaum Gate - Emile Habiby
Two women - Sami Michael
Blood and Spit - Jamal Musa

PART III. Stories of the Transit Camp
This is My Father - Sami Michael
He Loved Life - Shimon Ballas
Fire! - Sami Michael
Between the Mud and the Huts - Shimon Ballas

PART IV. Stories of the Village
The First Light - Hannah Ibrahim
The Great Shadow - Sami Michael
A Love Destroyed - Police by Nuri
Um Suwwar - Muhammed Naffa
On The Night of Eid - Hannah Ibrahim

PART V. The Poetry Festival
Festival and Solidarity Poetry
Harvest of Skulls - Tawfiq Zayyad
He Will Return - David Semah
My Brother Taqfiq - Davis Semah
A Child of My People - Hanna Abu Hanna

PART VI. Commentary
The Story We Want - Jabra Nicola
Immigrant Writers - Sami Michael

References
Translator Biographies