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“And yet the pressure is again on Palestinians to tell the human story that will educate and enlighten others and so allow for the conversion of the repentant Westerner, who might then descend onto the stage if not as a hero then perhaps as some kind of deus ex machina.”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“How many Palestinians, asked Omar Barghouti, need to die for one soldier to have their epiphany?”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“The flow of history always exceeds the narrative frames we impose on it.”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“Perhaps a writer doesn’t need to have a clear sense of what her text will do in the world. Perhaps a writer can relax a bit. Perhaps it’s enough to ask a question, and hope, perhaps, to glimpse the meaning of that question in retrospect.”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“The otherness that comes at you from the world has been inside you all along.”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
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