Becoming Palestine

Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future

Gil Z. Hochberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478014829 (ISBN)

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In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine's future. She shows how artists such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour, Farah Saleh, Basel Abbas, and Ruanne Abou-Rahme reimagine the archive, approaching it not through the desire to unearth hidden knowledge, but to sever the identification of the archive with the past. In their use of archaeology, musical traditions, and archival film and cinematic footage, these artists imagine a Palestinian future unbounded from colonial space and time. By urging readers to think about archives as a break from history rather than as history's repository, Hochberg presents a fundamental reconceptualization of the archive's liberatory potential.

Gil Z. Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University and author of Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, also published by Duke University Press, and In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Archival Imagination of/for the Future 1
1. Revisiting the Orientalist Archive: Jumana Manna's Re-Mapped Musical Archive of Palestine 37
2. Lost and Found in Israeli Footage: Kamal Aljafari's "Jaffa Trilogy" and the Productive Violation of the Colonial Visual Archive 53
3. "Suspended between Past and Future": Larissa Sansour's Sci-Fi Archaeological Archive in the Past-Future Tense 72
4. "Face to Face with the Ancestors of Civilization": Ruanna Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas's Archive of the Copy 87
5. Gesturing toward Resistance: Farah Saleh's Archive of Gestures 107
Afterword 128
Notes 135
Bibliography 171
Index 189

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2021
Zusatzinfo	30 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-13	9781478014829 / 9781478014829
Zustand	Neuware