scholarly journals Fremd im Eigenen – Hemmungen in der Arbeit mit Gewalterfahrenen

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Högger ◽  
Sophie Schneider ◽  
Michael Niebler
Keyword(s):  
Ghassan Kanafani

Gewalt ist allgegenwärtig. Nicht nur die Nachrichten berichten täglich davon, vielmehr leben Zeugen von Gewalt in Form von Ausgrenzung, Folter, Rassismus, behördlicher Willkür, Massenmorden usw. unter uns. Dennoch gibt es eine grosse Hemmung, sich mit den Menschen, die Gewalt erfahren haben, auseinander-zusetzen. Ein Grund dafür sind schwer erträgliche Gegenübertragungen als Reaktion auf chaotische Phänomene, da die innerpsychische Ordnung auf vielfältige Weise zerstört ist. Geordnetes Zeiterleben geht in Teilen verloren und das Grundvertrauen in sich und den Anderen wird angegriffen. Der immer auch in der psychoanalytischen Situation enthaltene Bruch, das Gegenüber als stets fremd er leben zu müssen, verweist uns auch auf das Fremde in uns. Die Gewalt radikalisiert dieses Erleben, lässt unmöglich erscheinen, den Anderen zu verstehen. Stammt das Gegenüber auch noch aus einem anderen Kulturkreis, ist er uns buchstäblich fremd. Es muss die Spannung zwischen widersprüchlichen Weltanschauungen ausgehalten werden, ohne einem Ordnungssystem den Vorzug zu geben. Für die therapeutische Arbeit ist es wesentlich, diese neutrale Position einzuhalten, um als Zeuge für das Erleben des Patienten zur Verfügung zu stehen. Wir illustrieren dies unter Einbezug der interkulturellen Perspektive durch die Beschäftigung mit dem Roman «Rückkehr nach Haifa» von Ghassan Kanafãni, der Untersuchung eines fremden Krankheitsverständnisses (am Beispiel Kambodscha) und einem Fallbeispiel eines südafrikanischen Mannes.

The Homeland, Imprisoned and Illegal: The Impact of Marginalisation on Views of the Homeland in Kanafānī's and Khalīfa's Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jedidiah Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Affect Theory ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
War Machine ◽  
Ghassan Kanafani ◽  
The Impact

This paper deals with the concept of Al-Waṭan, or ‘the homeland’, in Arabic in The Shell (Al-Qawqʿa) by Muṣṭafā Khalifa and Men in the Sun (Rijāl fīsh-Shams) by Ghassān Kanafānī. Analysis of how alienation from this concept has affected both Khalifa's and Kanafānī's characters is carried out through the lenses of Deleuze and Guattari's theories of rhizomatic associations and minor literature, as well as through the lens of affect theory. The paper also examines parallels between definitions of Al-Waṭan/the homeland in Ibn Manẓūr's classical dictionary Lisān al-ʿArab and Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of the war machine and the apparatus of capture.

scholarly journals VIE HÉROÏQUE: IN MEMORY OF BARBARA HARLOW (1948–2017)

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-576
Author(s):  
Tarek El-Ariss
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
White Wine ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Kitchen Table ◽  
Ghassan Kanafani ◽  
Pro Bono ◽  
Complete Series ◽  
Mystery Novels ◽  
Middle East Studies

On 28 January 2017, the field of Middle East studies lost one of its strongest and most vocal advocates—Barbara Harlow. Barbara led a heroic life: writing, resisting, drinking, and smoking, to the end! With the heart of a warrior, she practiced muqāwama at every level and in every possible way. Her power of the “No” confronted structures of power, normativity of all kind, and fluff. She was solid, engaged, wise, and infinitely supportive of her students, colleagues, and causes. She was the first to arrive at every demonstration and the last to leave, making sure that the pro-bono lawyers were ready at police stations to work on releasing those arrested. Barbara was real, genuine, and fun to be around. She loved to hear the latest news—and gossip—from Cairo and Beirut as we sat at her kitchen table, sipping white wine and smoking. She read everything, from mystery novels set in Cairo or London to the most recent study on Arabic literature and culture. Browsing her library one finds graphic novels from the Ghassan Kanafani Foundation that she used to learn Arabic; all of Lacan, Blanchot, Artaud, and Derrida from her poststructuralist days; legal and political theory books dealing with South Africa and Palestine; and complete series of journals such as al-Hadaf and al-Karmel.

Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-108
Author(s):  
Erica Stevens Abbitt
Keyword(s):  
Ghassan Kanafani

A Study of Rijāl Fī Al-Shams By Ghassan Kanafānī

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas R. Magrath
Keyword(s):  
Ghassan Kanafani

The Politics of Death and the Question of Palestine

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-380
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Sacks
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ghassan Kanafani ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Affective Relation

Abstract This article considers the work of Hannah Arendt and Ghassan Kanafani in relation to the social and juridical logic and form of the settler colony and of the settler-colonial logic and form of the Israeli state and its ideology, Zionism. The argument is framed in relation to two moments: (1) the notion and practice of Bildung—education, training, formation—where the subject of language, in becoming literate, thoughtful, and self-reflective, is to become a being that recognizes itself and others in these and related terms: as legible, autonomous, and self-determining; and (2) the ongoing debates around the politics of death, articulated through the writing of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Carl Schmitt, Achille Mbembe, and Arendt. The article argues that, insofar as they presume an understanding of Bildung as a principal category of social thought, these debates reiterate the terms they claim to diagnose or contest. It also argues that, in their affective relation to decolonization, Arendt—and Foucault and Agamben—conjures and advances a social panic in a desire to domesticate the destabilizing force of anticolonial struggle. Finally, the article reads Kanafani’s Rijāl fī al-shams (Men in the Sun) to argue that Kanafani’s novelistic practice discombobulates the terms privileged in the settler colony and in its social and literary logic and form, as it promises a nonredemptive, anomic, and non-state-centric futurity.

Israel/Palestine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew Paul
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
The West ◽  
Oslo Accords ◽  
Ghassan Kanafani ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
The Relationship

Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian mobility. As a result, such border spaces have become ubiquitous elements of everyday life, with profound political, socio-cultural, and economic effects.  Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel have grappled with the spread and impact of these borders in the period since the Oslo Accords of 1994. Focusing on novels by Raba’i al-Madhoun, Ghassan Kanafani, Sami Michael and Sayed Kashua, and films by Elia Suleiman, Simon Bitton, Emad Burnat, and Guy Davidi, Israel/Palestine traces how political engagement in literature and film has shifted away from previously common paradigms of resistance and coexistence. Instead, it has become reorganised around these now ubiquitous physical barriers. Using strategies of narrative fragmentation, multivocality, metafiction, fantasy, and silence to depict the effects of these borders, authors and filmmakers interrogate the notion that such spaces are impenetrable and unbreakable by revealing their deceptive and illusive qualities. In doing so, they also imagine distinct forms of protest, and redefine the relationship between cultural production and political engagement.

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