Becoming Palestine : Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future / by Gil Z. Hochberg
Material type: TextPublication details: Duke University Press; 2021Description: 192p; 23x15cmISBN:- 9781478014829
- 302.2095694-- dc23
- P95.82.P19H634 2021
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | SAF Reference Library Book Case #22 | Visual Arts | N7560-8266 22-N10 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine's future. She shows how artists such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour, Farah Saleh, Basel Abbas, and Ruanne Abou-Rahme reimagine the archive, approaching it not through the desire to unearth hidden knowledge, but to sever the identification of the archive with the past. In their use of archaeology, musical traditions, and archival film and cinematic footage, these artists imagine a Palestinian future unbounded from colonial space and time. By urging readers to think about archives as a break from history rather than as history's repository, Hochberg presents a fundamental reconceptualization of the archive's liberatory potential.
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