The Sky Is Incomplete

Travel Chronicles in Palestine
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0566-8
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Translated from Spanish for the first time, and with a new introduction to the English edition, The Sky Is Incomplete: Travel Chronicles in Palestine is comprised of sixty short entries detailing life in and reflections on the Occupied Territories of Palestine in the twenty-first century. In this collection, Irmgard Emmelhainz operates in the committed literature tradition of Walter Benjamin and Andre Gide in Moscow in the 1920s, and Susan Sontag and Juan Goytisolo in Sarajevo in the 1990s—writers and cultural observers grappling with the political processes of others, elsewhere.
 
In order to render the issue of representation, of speaking on behalf of the Palestinian ordeal in all its complexity, The Sky Is Incomplete is composed as a collage, gathering diary entries, letters, experimental passages, script, poetry, art criticism, political analysis, and other genres to convey an opaque view of the Palestine Question. Beyond representation in the sense of giving testimony or speaking on behalf of the Palestinians, however, the author’s parting point is relational: The Sky Is Incomplete is about encounters—with friends, mentors, interlocutors, lovers, children, activists, and soldiers (Israeli and Palestinian).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emmelhainz, Irmgard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction to the English Edition
- Introduction to the Spanish Edition
- The Sky Is Incomplete
- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Irmgard Emmelhainz is an independent translator, writer, researcher, and lecturer based in Mexico City. Her writings on film, the Palestine Question, art, cinema, culture, and neoliberalism have been translated into several languages and presented at an array of international venues. She is the author of The Tyranny of Common Sense: Mexico's Post-Neoliberal Conversion, El cielo estÁ incompleto: Cuaderno de viaje en Palestina, and Jean-Luc Godard's Political Filmmaking.