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The Sky Is Incomplete: Travel Chronicles in Palestine

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Availability:In StockContributor:Irmgard EmmelhainzPublish date:2023-12-15Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vanderbilt University PressISBN-13:9780826505651ISBN-10:826505651UPC:9780826505651Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Refugees, Middle EastBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Israel & PalestineSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCD6QD8Z49
Translated from Spanish for the first time, and with a new introduction to the English edition, The Sky Is Incomplete comprises sixty short entries detailing life in and reflections on the Occupied Territories of Palestine in the twenty-first century over prolonged stays between 2007-2015. In this collection, Irmgard Emmelhainz operates in the committed literature tradition of Walter Benjamin and André Gide in Moscow in the 1920s, and Susan Sontag and Juan Goytisolo in Sarajevo in the 1990s--writers and cultural observers grappling with the political processes of others, elsewhere.

In order to render the issue of representation, of speaking on behalf of the Palestinian ordeal in all its complexity, The Sky Is Incomplete is composed as a collage, gathering diary entries, letters, experimental passages, script, poetry, art criticism, political analysis, and other genres to convey an opaque view of the Palestine Question. Beyond representation in the sense of giving testimony or speaking on behalf of the Palestinians, however, the author's parting point is relational: The Sky Is Incomplete is about encounters--with friends, mentors, interlocutors, lovers, children, activists, and soldiers (Israeli and Palestinian).
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vanderbilt University PressISBN-13:9780826505651ISBN-10:826505651UPC:9780826505651Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Refugees, Middle EastBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Israel & PalestineSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCD6QD8Z49
Irmgard Emmelhainz is an independent translator, writer, researcher, and lecturer based in Mexico City. Her writings on film, the Palestine Question, art, cinema, culture, and neoliberalism have been translated into several languages and presented at an array of international venues, including the Graduate School of Design at Harvard (2014); the Walter Benjamin in Palestine Conference (2015); the New School and the Americas Society (2016); SBC Gallery, Montreal (2016); the Curatorial Summit at the School of Visual Arts, New York (2017); and the Munch Museum, Oslo (2018). She is the author of El cielo está incompleto: Cuadernos de viaje en Palestina (Spanish, 2017) and Jean-Luc Godard's Political Filmmaking (English, 2019), and Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures (VUP, 2022).
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

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