Giving Language to the Language of That Which Cannot Be Constructed
By imagining new worlds and countering Zionist mythologies that deny them their history, Palestinian poets challenge the colonial history into which they have been brutally implicated by the Israeli apartheid regime.
Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies – Heba Hayek
What Hayek accomplishes with her debut collection is to transcribe the crisis of categorization that defines the Palestinian experience.
Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography – Edgar Garcia
Garcia upends the distinction between diurnal intellection and nocturnal visions and free-association.
That Hair – Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
Narrator Mila’s story — or stories — of her hair, the different phases of treatments, evolving senses of attachment, dissociation, indifference, and reinvigoration concerning her hair, are naturally diminutive allegories for a larger postcolonial existential journey.
Race After Technology – Ruha Benjamin
If racism is being “retooled,” then so too must the abolitionist imaginaries dedicated to a society and world free of carceral and police violence.