Description
Paper Presented: 'Palestinian Fiction as Post-colonial Dystopia.'Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba (2019) is a collection of short stories (12 in all) by Palestinian writers commissioned to imagine what Palestine might look like in 2048, 100 years after the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes.
The publishers of Palestine +100 note in their back-page blurb that their collection is “probably the first anthology of science fiction from Palestine ever.” I quote that blurb here as the ‘probably’ needs work – currently, there is a lot of interest (scholarly and non-scholarly) in the explosion of the readership for science-fiction in the MENA region, in what has been called ‘Arab-Futurism.’ This form of futurism, an extension and mediation of Afro-Futurism is interesting in its own right but I draw attention to it here only to acknowledge that a lot of work is being done by Arabic writers, artists, thinkers and scholars on ‘the future’ currently, work I will not engage with here though it is important to acknowledge the key role of Palestinian and in particular Palestinian diaspora artists in Arab-Futurism.
| المدة | مايو 9 2024 |
|---|---|
| نوع الحدث | Conference |
| الموقع | Cork , Irelandالإظهار على الخريطة |
| درجة الإدراك | دولي |