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Resistance literature can be used to resist gender-based oppression, or to demonstrate difficulties in liberation struggles or writing in exile. [15] [16] Studying resistance literature is one way to challenge norms and defy culture practices that can, in some instances, give hope.
Resistant reading is an element of some current critical and interpretive repertoire. It is worth considering whether diegetic border crossing always strengthens the potential for resistant reading (as might seem intuitively likely, given that readers are moving in and out of the story), or whether on some occasions it might trigger the reverse effect.
The collection takes inspiration from Kanafani's biography, and his struggle with alienation. It also deals with his insistence on his intellectual and physical resistance. Kanafani's preference to use figurative language has political and literary purposes, which he elaborates on in his study Resistance Literature in Occupied Palestine: 1948 ...
By way of introducing The Aesthetics of Resistance what follows are the opening paragraphs of an article by Robert Cohen: "The Aesthetics of Resistance begins with an absence. Missing is Heracles, the great hero of Greek mythology. The space he once occupied in the enormous stone frieze depicting the battle of the Giants against the Gods is empty.
Kanafani was the first to deploy the notion of resistance literature ("adab al-muqawama") with regard to Palestinian writing; [5] [15] in two works, published respectively in 1966 and 1968, [5] one critic, Orit Bashkin, has noted that his novels repeat a certain fetishistic worship of arms, and that he appears to depict military means as the ...
ROAR: Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (Russian: Вестник антивоенной и оппозиционной культуры, before the sixth issue — Russian Oppositional Arts Review, Russian: Вестник русской оппозиционной культуры) is a bimonthly [1] online publication created by Linor Goralik, a well-known Russian writer born in Ukraine and ...
‘The quiet resistance’ Boyer’s suggestion to channel disappointment into activism is already part of Darrell Ann Murphy’s post-election plan — one she adopted with friends after a few ...
Everyday resistance (also, by James C. Scott, called infrapolitics) is a dispersed, quiet, seemingly invisible and disguised form of resistance [1] seemingly aiming at redistribution of control over property. [2] The acts of everyday resistance are considered to be relatively safe and they require either little or no formal coordination. [2]