Table of Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• One. The Meaning of Stones
• Two. Reading the Landscape: Images of Palestine in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
• Three. The Literature of Struggle and Loss, 1920-1960
• Four. Landscapes of Exile
• Five. Landscapes of Home
• Six. Encountering Israel
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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A unique blending of cultural geography and literary analysis opens an unusual window on the struggle between two peoples over a land that both divides them and brings them together

About the Author

Barbara M. Parmenter taught Geographic Information System (GIS) courses in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. She is the translator of On the Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman's Tales of Alienation by Daisy al-Amir and Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence by Leila Abouzeid.

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This study provides a useful survey of contemporary Palestinian culture through a reading of the relationship between literature and land. Drawing on the methods of both geography and literary criticism, it traces the evolution of what Raja Shehadeh has called a ‘Palestinian "land rhetoric"’ from the late 19th century through the Intifada conflict.
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