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SUMMARY:AMES Public Seminar: Dr cHana Morgenstern – Rupture and Reconstru
 ction: The Palestinian Cultural Magazine after 1948
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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)\, Un
 iversity of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AME
 S Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living\, Reconstructing and Re-imaginin
 g political and cultural landscapes of the Middle East.\n\nAMES Public S
 eminar: Dr cHana Morgenstern (University of Cambridge) – Rupture and Rec
 onstruction: The Palestinian Cultural Magazine after 1948\n\nOne of the 
 profound yet frequently overlooked outcomes of the 1948 Palestinian Nakb
 a was the devastating obliteration of Palestine’s literary and print cul
 ture. Within a few short years\, Palestinians faced the murder or forced
  exile of an entire generation of writers and critics\, the dismantling 
 of cultural institutions\, the collapse of the press\, and the erasure o
 f major Palestinian cities as centers of cultural production. Inspired b
 y the inquiries of the Archives of the Disappeared project\, this paper 
 asks: what shifts in understanding emerge when we foreground the questio
 n of cultural annihilation in the study of Palestine and other colonized
  spaces? Focusing on the cultural destruction of the 1940s and 50s\, I e
 xplore efforts to rebuild a literary and intellectual establishment thro
 ugh the mediums of newspapers and magazines. I argue that Arab socialist
  periodicals such as al-Ittihad and al-Jadid played a pivotal role in ad
 dressing the cultural losses of the Nakba\, shaping the style\, form\, a
 nd material conditions of Palestinian literature during the 1950s and 60
 s. In doing so\, I draw on contemporary thinkers\, including Constantine
  Zurayq (1948)\, who contended that the Nakba represented a fundamental 
 rupture in Arabic culture and intellectual life\, and Ghassan Kanafani (
 1967)\, who identified emergent Palestinian literary forms and practices
  dedicated to the work of reconstruction and resistance post-1948.\n\nTo
 day\, we witness a process that echoes the 1948 Nakba\, in Gaza\, where 
 educational and cultural institutions are being wiped out amidst Israeli
  state genocide. I will end my presentation by inviting the audience to 
 reflect on how the cultural history surrounding 1948 can shed light on t
 he ongoing scholasticide and cultural devastation in Gaza. Overall\, I a
 sk how makers seek to preserve\, retrieve or replace a lost cultural arc
 hive\; how destruction and erasure fundamentally shift the ground and th
 e material conditions of writing and publishing\; and how loss\, death a
 nd absence are accounted for in the literary form.
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LOCATION:A112\, Samuel Alexander Building
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