Novel Palestine

Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah

About the Author:

Nora E. H. Parr is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and Center for Lebanese Studies. She coedits Middle Eastern Literatures.

Description: Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine examines these imaginative structures so that we might move beyond the idea of an incomplete or fragmented reality and speak frankly about the nation that exists and the freedom it seeks. Engaging the writings of Ibrahim Nasrallah, Nora E. H. Parr traces a vocabulary through which Palestine can be discussed as a changing and flexible national network linking people across and within space, time, and community. Through an exploration of the Palestinian literary scene subsequent to its canonical writers, Parr makes the life and work of Nasrallah available to an English-language audience for the first time, offering an intervention in geography while bringing literary theory into conversation with politics and history.

October 2023 Paperback 

$34.95, £30.00

A free open access ebook is available at www.luminosoa.org