Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
Author: Isabella Hammad
Publisher: Grove Press/ Black Cat: 2024
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780802163929
DESCRIPTION
From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost, comes an engaging, readable and profound essay and new afterword on the Palestinian story in the context of literature and history.
Award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad, delivered the Edward W. Said Lecture at Columbia University nine days before October 7th, 2023. The text of Hammad's seminal speech and her afterword written in the early weeks of 2024 together make up a passionate appraisal of the Israel-Palestine war and a moment that, even at present, feels like a turning point in the narrative of human history. Moving and erudite, Hammad writes from within the moment, giving voice to the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Recognizing the Stranger is a brilliant melding of literary and cultural analysis by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.
AUTHOR
Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost. The Parisian won a Palestine Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Betty Trask Award. She was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Enter Ghost won the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, among other prizes. The winner of the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and an O. Henry Prize, she has been awarded literary fellowships from the Cullman Center, the Lannan Foundation, and the Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination.