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Looking for Palestine by Najla Said6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() By closely attending to these memoirs of return, I aim in this chapter to reveal how the genre of Anglophone Arab autobiography engages established networks of literary transmission and reception, and, in so doing, sheds new light on the Middle East. Najla Said Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family Hardcover Augby Najla Said (Author) 163 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 5.50 23 Used from 4.00 Paperback 17.00 28 Used from 1.63 13 New from 10. They trace personal and political trajectories that draw attention to the Middle East of the twenty-first century and that explore the dynamics of return in this rapidly changing context. Najla Said talked about her book, Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family, in which she discusses her father, the internationally known scholar Edward Said (1935-2003. ![]() Looking for Palestine and The Return represent a new form of transnational literature that explicitly seeks to cut across the Orientalised circuits of literary and cultural exchange by which memoirs from the Arab world are typically written, published and read. This chapter focuses on Palestinian-American author Najla Said’s Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab American Family and London-based Libyan novelist Hisham Matar’s The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between. A prominent device assumed by the contemporary Anglophone Arab memoir is that of the ‘return narrative’. ![]()
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