Palestina en pedazos / Palestine in Pieces (Spanish Edition)

Un gran cuaderno de reflexiones en el que la autora funde lecturas y recuerdos sobre la tierra que sus ancestros se vieron obligados a abandonar en busca de una nueva vida. <>. –Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, The New York Times Palestina en pedazos amplia y profundiza la reflexion que Lina Meruane inicio en 2012, tras un viaje a Beit Jala que constituiria un paradojico volver a casa en nombre de quienes nunca pudieron regresar. Desde esa posicion acaso desautorizada pero politicamente comprometida, Meruane escribio la cronica que abre este volumen –<>– y continuo escribiendo porque, como diria despues, <>. A esas paginas se sumo una segunda parte –<>–, una aguda y audaz meditacion en torno al lenguaje del conflicto, y una tercera, hasta ahora inedita –<>–, en la que se repiensa la identidad individual y colectiva impresa en las caras y en las lenguas asi como los contrasentidos culturales que los cuerpos portan. Los tres textos aqui reunidos examinan pertenencias esencialistas, excluyentes, proscritas e inestables a traves de una escritura que funde el aire melancolico de la memoria, la agilidad de la cronica viajera, la ironia critica y el toque reflexivo a la vez que atrevido del ensayo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A grand book of reflections where the author blends her reads with memories of the land her ancestors were forced to leave in search of a new life. “A deliberate and immensely gifted writer that understands how political trauma is preserved forever in the body.”–Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, The New York Times Palestine in Pieces broadens and deepens the reflection that Lina Meruane began in 2012 after a journey to Beit Jala, which would constitute a paradoxical return home in the name of those who could never go back. From such a position, perhaps lacking in authority but politically committed, Meruane wrote the opening chronicle for this volume–“Becoming Palestine”–and continued writing because, as she would later say, “no matter how much you want to write that last line, the grim reality of occupation continues.” There was a second part added to those pages–“Becoming Others”–an acute and audacious contemplation on the language of conflict. And a third, never before published–“Faces on My Face”–where Meruane rethinks both individual and collective identities pressed upon visages and languages, as well as the cultural contradictions that bodies carry. The three texts gathered here examine essentialist, exclusive, proscribed, and unstable belongings through a narrative that unites memory’s melancholic air with the flexibility of travel writing, critical irony, and the pensive yet daring touch of essays.