Book Reviews by Omar Zahzah
Full Stop, 2020
My review of Ruha Benjamin's study Race After Technology, published in Full Stop
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Journal of Palestine Studies , 2020
My review of the academic collection After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-Firs... more My review of the academic collection After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Bashir Abu-Manneh, published in the Journal of Palestine Studies.
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Full Stop, 2021
My review of Edgar Garcia's surrealist poetry collection Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography
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Full Stop , 2020
My review of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's ficto-critical novel, That Hair, trans. by Eric M.B. ... more My review of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's ficto-critical novel, That Hair, trans. by Eric M.B. Becker
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Journal of Palestine Studies , 2020
A book review of Sunaina Maira's Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine, which engages th... more A book review of Sunaina Maira's Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine, which engages the history and political justification for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing occupation and colonization of Palestine.
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Review of Syrine Hout's literary monograph, Postwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction (2012)
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Journal of American ethnic history, Apr 1, 2024
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Journal of Palestine Studies, May 1, 2020
My review of the academic collection After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-Firs... more My review of the academic collection After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Bashir Abu-Manneh, published in the Journal of Palestine Studies.
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Transmotion, Jul 1, 2019
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Journal of Palestine Studies, 2020
A book review of Sunaina Maira's Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine, which en... more A book review of Sunaina Maira's Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine, which engages the history and political justification for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing occupation and colonization of Palestine.
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My dissertation is a comparative analysis of Arab American and African American literature spanni... more My dissertation is a comparative analysis of Arab American and African American literature spanning from the Cold War era up to the present “War on ‘Terror.’” I examine how paradigms of security are constructed and contested within the texts under analysis, and argue that the writers’ recurrent trope of using socio-political struggle as a means of cohering transnational sentiments of solidarity constitutes a larger critique of the boundless scope of oppressive disciplinary paradigms. Furthermore, I show how the texts indicate—however implicitly or fleetingly—possibilities for a more egalitarian, alternative social order in place of the current hegemonic status quo.Chapter One, “‘Relax! We not studying you guys:’ Making State Scrutiny (In)Visible Via Resistance Poetics,” is dedicated to a comparative analysis of African American June Jordan’s poetry (Living Room, 1985) and Palestinian American Suheir Hammad’s verse in Born Palestinian, Born Black (1993). I effect a close reading of s...
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This review essay constitutes an attempt to outline the main conceptual concerns reflected in the... more This review essay constitutes an attempt to outline the main conceptual concerns reflected in the cumulative, book-length scholarly output of Steven Salaita to date, with particular emphasis on what the reviewer presumes to be his original contributions to American Indian/Indigenous Studies.
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This review essay constitutes an attempt to outline the main conceptual concerns reflected in the... more This review essay constitutes an attempt to outline the main conceptual concerns reflected in the cumulative, book-length scholarly output of Steven Salaita to date, with particular emphasis on what the reviewer presumes to be his original contributions to American Indian/Indigenous Studies.
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Arab Studies Quarterly, 2020
This critical set of reflections addresses how the increasing visibility of the Palestinian strug... more This critical set of reflections addresses how the increasing visibility of the Palestinian struggle and the growing attention to Palestine in the (US) academy coincides with altered and depleted meanings for terms and concepts once central to a Palestinian liberation framework. The authors challenge the de-familiarization of the Palestinian political lexicon by ruminating on past, present and potential future meanings for words whose currency, they argue, has assumed a deceptively simple valuation. What are the unforeseen political consequences of visibility, of “incorporation,” and how might these be resisted within the arena of meaning and through the process of reviving language as an instrument of national liberation struggle? Revisiting old definitions of terms and contributing thoughts to the value of words such as Zionism, peace process and negotiations, statehood and violence, the authors contest the boundaries of disciplinary research in service of Palestinian liberation.
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Journal of Palestine Studies, 2020
My review of the academic collection After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-Firs... more My review of the academic collection After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Bashir Abu-Manneh, published in the Journal of Palestine Studies.
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Journal of Palestine Studies, 2020
A book review of Sunaina Maira's Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine, which en... more A book review of Sunaina Maira's Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine, which engages the history and political justification for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing occupation and colonization of Palestine.
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Published in 2003, the Lebanese-Québécois playwright Wajdi Mouawad’s Incendies is a work which ex... more Published in 2003, the Lebanese-Québécois playwright Wajdi Mouawad’s Incendies is a work which explores issues of exile and displacement. Guided by theorist Mieke Bal’s contention that an analysis of how the linguistic structure of a narrative text and its thematic concerns correlate with one another may lead to an enriched understanding of both dimensions, and thus the text overall (181-2), I will illustrate how this play structurally reflects Edward Said’s concept of exilic subjectivity by featuring binary oppositions that constantly interact with one another while never completely losing their separateness. In addition to relying on both Incendies and F. Elizabeth Dahab’s Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature, my investigation will also utilize Edward Said’s essay “Reflections on Exile,” Mieke Bal’s Narratology, and other literary analyses of Incendies, as well as referencing the theories of de Saussure and Derrida. Furthermore, an analysis of the manner...
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Al Jazeera , 2021
Social media companies, from Zoom to Facebook and Twitter, are reinforcing Israel’s erasure of Pa... more Social media companies, from Zoom to Facebook and Twitter, are reinforcing Israel’s erasure of Palestinians.
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