Ahlam Shibli: Phantom Home by Nashif Esmail - 2013

Paperback / softback. New. Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, more than a quarter of the Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel on political grounds. This is the first major study that examines the community of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system. Esmail Nashif explicates the processes that transformed this colonial system into a Palestinian generative site for constructing national, social, and cultural identities. Based on ethnographic, archival, and textual data, the book explores the material conditions of the prison, the education system, organizational structure, and the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of the community's building processes. Like other political prisoners in the late colonial era, in the Arab World, and South Africa, the Palestinian prisoners over-invested in meaning production and its related techniques of reading, writing and interpretation in order to regain their historical agency. This… Read More

Taylor & Francis Group , pp. 244 . Papeback. New.

Routledge, 2010. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 244 pages. 9.00x5.90x0.60 inches.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Palestinian Political Prisoners: Identity and community.

Routledge. Hardcover. New. 9x6x0.