Transnational Literature of Resistance - Mir, Salam Darwazah
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"Examines resistance literatures from Guyana - a British exploitation colony - and Palestine - a settler-colony - at a specific historical moment, by contesting the provinciality and Eurocentric focus of comparative literature, delivering the discipline's universal objectives, and expanding the discipline's practice by comparing two literatures and histories from the Global South. The author argues that the emergence of resistance poetry in both countries at this historical juncture forms part of the resistance to Empire during decolonization, linking the formerly colonized and the presently colonized people in the Global South"--…mehr

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"Examines resistance literatures from Guyana - a British exploitation colony - and Palestine - a settler-colony - at a specific historical moment, by contesting the provinciality and Eurocentric focus of comparative literature, delivering the discipline's universal objectives, and expanding the discipline's practice by comparing two literatures and histories from the Global South. The author argues that the emergence of resistance poetry in both countries at this historical juncture forms part of the resistance to Empire during decolonization, linking the formerly colonized and the presently colonized people in the Global South"--
Autorenporträt
Salam Darwazah Mir is an independent scholar and previously was Associate Professor of English, Lasell University, USA, where she launched Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies in 2009 and taught several literature courses. She has previously taught at the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. She is also a book review editor at Arab Studies Quarterly.