Perfect Victims [electronic resource] : And the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd2025
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Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of
resistance and refusal-an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.
Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified.
While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence,
fundamental truths are deliberately obscured-the perpetrators are coddled while
the victims are blamed and placed on trial.
Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of
such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical
precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather
than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends
and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and
condemnation.
How we see Palest...
Main title:
Perfect Victims [electronic resource] : And the Politics of Appeal / Mohammed El-Kurd
Author:
Mohammed El-Kurd, Author
Imprint:
"Chicago;United States" : Haymarket Books, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (256)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9798888903162
Language:
English
BRN:
529130
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |