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     The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
     Course Number: English R1A LEC 4 Units
     Semester and Year: fall 2002
     Location and Time: 204 Wheeler TuTh 2:00-3:30
     Instructor: Shingavi, Snehal
     Course Control Number: 28448

Course Description: Since the inception of the Intifada in September of
2000, Palestinians have been fighting for their right to exist. The
brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, an occupation that has
been ongoing since 1948, has systematically displaced, killed, and
maimed millions of Palestinian people. And yet, from under the brutal
weight of the occupation, Palestinians have produced their own culture
and poetry of resistance. This class will examine the history of the
Palestinian resistance and the way that it is narrated by Palestinians
in order to produce an understanding of the Intifada and to develop a
coherent political analysis of the situation. This class takes as its
starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own
self-determination. Discussions about the literature will focus on
several intersecting themes: how are Palestinian artists able to imagine
art under the occupation; what consequences does resistance
have on the character of the art that is produced (i.e. why are there so
few Palestinian epics and plays and comedies); can one represent the
Israeli occupation in art; what is the difference between political art
and propaganda and how do the debates about those terms inflect the
production of literature; how do poems represent the desire to escape
and the longing for home simultaneously (alternatively, how do poems
represent the nation without a state); what consequence do political
debates have on formal innovations and their reproduction; and what are
the obligations of artists in representing the occupation.