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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.