Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba: 2 (Futures Past) - Softcover

Maarouf, Mazen; Dabbagh, Selma; Masoud, Ahmed; Hamed, Anwar; Shawish, Talal Abu; Yaghi, Rawan; Aysha, Emad El-Din; El-Youssef, Samir; Haddad, Saleem

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910974447 ISBN 13: 9781910974445

Verlag: Comma Press, 2019

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'This book is not a happy read, but it's one that complicates our worldview, undermines our certainty and unravels our righteousness. We need more literature like this.' --Tor.com

'Palestine +100 will not bring justice for the Palestinian people. At least, not by itself, but it's part of something vitally important: it serves as a reminder that they are still there, still fighting, still angry, lost, and full of burning... it's a call, a roar, a celebration of the artistic and literary power of Palestine.' --Books and Bao

'Palestine +100 adopts sci-fi not as escapism, but as a new set of metaphors with which to engage the present political realities of occupied Palestine, and it's people's urgent desire for freedom and justice.' --TANK Magazine

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THE FIRST ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION FROM PALESTINE.

As featured in The Guardian.

'It's necessary, of course. But above all it's bold, brilliant and inspiring: a sign of boundless imagination and fierce creation even in circumstances of oppression, denial, silencing and constriction. The voices of these writers demand to be heard - and their stories are defiantly entertaining.' - Bidisha

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians? Covering a range of approaches from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, peace treaties that span parallel universes, and even a Palestinian superhero, in probably the first anthology of science fiction from Palestine ever.

Translated from the Arabic by Raph Cormack, Mohamed Ghalaieny, Andrew Leber, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Yasmine Seale and Jonathan Wright. WINNER of a PEN Translates Award.

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• Verlag: Comma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1910974447
• ISBN 13: 9781910974445
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Ghalayini Basma