Palestinian Political Prisoners : Identity and Community

This book is a comprehensive study of Palestinian political prisoners held by the Israelis and charts the development of this community and its role within the politics of the ongoing conflict.

1. Introduction: Slippery Position(s), Unsettled Setting(s) 1.1 The Position(s) 1.2 The Research 1.3 The Community 1.4 The Book 1.5 Notes on Gender language and Politics 2. Claiming the Colonial 2.1 History of the Conflict 2.2 The War of June 1967: Recognizing Colonialism in Palestine 2.2.1 From social disorientation to mass mobilization 2.2.2 PLO, Fateh, and PFLP 2.2.3 Society, direct military rule, and resistance Conclusion 3. Building the Community: The Body, the Material Conditions, and the Communication Networks 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The History as Told and Written 3.2.1 The material conditions and the powers of draining 3.2.2 The cabsulih: Contested spaces/bodies of colonial knowledge/power 3.2.3 The subversion of the written body 3.3 The Body of the Community 3.3.1 The sign of the body 3.4 Conclusion 4. Structures of a Revolutionary Pedagogy: Instituting Signification 4.1 Introduction 4.1.1 Some theoretical contetxualizations 4.2 Writing the History of the Prison 4.2.1 Hasan Abdallah 4.2.2 History as dislocated prohibitions 4.3 Dissecting the Practices from the Arrested Social Body 4.4 Some conclusing remarks 5. The Textual Formation of Subjects: Interrogation as a Rite of Passage 5.1 Introduction 5.2 A Manual for the Novice 5.2.1 The book 5.2.2 The cover 5.2.3 Prefacing 5.2.4 The text 5.2.5 The theory of interrogation 5.2.6 The techniques of interrogation 5.3 Tracing the Discursive Formations 5.4 Constructing decontamination textually 5.5 Conclusion 6. The Hidden Intellectual: Lecturing Political Captivity 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Lecturing Captivity: Agency, Self, and Linguistic Activities 6.2.1 The language of the self 6.3 Textual Strategies and Structures: The Architecture of the Lecture 6.3.1 Themes 6.3.2 Structured narrative: moments of a continuum 6.3.3 Linguistic yearning for the alternative 6.4 The Intellectual Colonial Junctures of Palestine: The Unbearable Lightness of Resolutions 6.5 Conclusion 7. The Three Domains: The Aesthetic Representing and Forming of the National 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Context of Novelizing the Hidden 7.2.1 The novel of the nation 7.3 Tracing the Threads of the Novelistic Practices 7.3.1 The plot 7.3.2 Delimiting the signifying aesthetic: the body of the novel, the body of the world 7.3.3 Novelizing the colonial as isolated events 7.3.4 The limited problematic protagonist 7.4 The Possibilities of World Vision(s) 7.5 Conclusion 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography