Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

Title: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative Author: Isabella Hammad ISBN: 9780802163929 Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Non-Fiction 1622811 Publisher Description: "Extraordinary and amazingly erudite. Hammad shows how art and especially literature can be much, much more revealing than political writing." --Rashid Khalidi, New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine From the award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. The text of Hammad's seminal speech and her afterword, written in the early weeks of 2024, together make up