Palestinian political prisoners : identity and community / Esmail Nashif.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: slippery position(s), unsetteled setting(s) -- The position(s) -- The research -- The community -- The book -- Notes on gender, language, and politics -- Claiming the colonial -- History of the conflict -- The war of June 1967: recognizing colonialism in Palestine -- From social disorientation to mass mobilization -- PLO, Fateh, and PFLP -- Society, direct military rule, and resistance -- Conclusion -- Building the community: the body, the material conditions, and the communication networks -- Introduction -- The history as told and written -- The material conditions and the powers of draining -- The Cabsulih: contested spaces/bodies of colonial knowledge/power -- The subversion of the written body -- The body of the community -- The sign of the body -- Conclusion -- Structures of a revolutionary pedagogy: instituting signification -- Introduction -- Some theoretical contetxualizations -- Writing the history of the prison -- Hasan Abdallah -- History as dislocated prohibitions -- Dissecting the practices from the arrested social body -- Some concluding remarks -- The textual formation of subjects: interrogation as a rite of passage -- Introduction -- A manual for the novice -- The book -- The cover -- Prefacing -- The text -- The theory of interrogation -- The techniques of interrogation -- Tracing the discursive formations -- Constructing decontamination textually -- Conclusion -- The hidden intellectual: lecturing political captivity -- Introduction -- Lecturing captivity: agency, self, and linguistic activities -- The language of the self -- Textual strategies and structures: the architecture of the lecture -- Themes -- Structured narrative: moments of a continuum -- Linguistic yearning for the alternative -- The intellectual colonial junctures of Palestine: the unbearable lightness of resolutions -- Conclusion -- The three domains: the aesthetic representing and forming of the national -- Introduction -- The context of novelizing the hidden -- The novel of the nation -- Tracing the threads of the novelistic practices -- The plot -- Delimiting the signifying aesthetic: the body of the novel, the body of the world -- Novelizing the colonial as isolated events -- The limited problematic protagonist -- The possibilities of world vision(s) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.

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