The Wind in My Hair - Couverture souple

Salem, Salma; Maritano, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566566630 ISBN 13 : 9781566566636

Editeur : Interlink Books, 2006

Synopsis

The Wind in My Hair is the memoir of Salwa Salem, who was just eight years old when she and many other Palestinians were uprooted by the Zionists in al-Nakba (the catastrophe). After her family fled to Jaffa and then to Nablus, she spent the rest of her life in exile: in Damascus, Kuwait, Vienna, and finally, Italy. Salem’s story of displacement and exile is in one sense the story of all Palestinians; her account of her own political engagement and that of members of her own family tells the political history of an embattled people. But she is no token Palestinian; she is, above all, her own person: a courageous and vital woman who claimed the right to be free to choose her work and her husband; to read Kafka and Simone de Beauvoir alongside Arab literature; to love both opera and the songs of Fairouz; to be involved in politics and have a family. If the particular pitch of this memoir derives from its deathbed narration (as Salem lay dying of cancer, she dictated the story of her life to Laura Maritano), it is the memoir’s precision, its judicious balance of the personal and the political, that triumphs over any individual or national tragedy. Salem refuses to be simply a victim—of war, of political injustice, of sickness—but embraces life passionately to the end, and in doing so, has left the world the gift of her life story.

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À propos de l'auteur

Salwa Salem was born in 1940 at Kafr Zibàd, Palestine, and spent her childhood first in Jaffa and then in Nablus, where her family took refuge following the Arab–Israeli war of 1948. After studying philosophy at the University of Damascus, she spent most of her life in Parma, Italy, where she died in 1992. Laura Maritano was born in Turin in 1965. She has a degree in literature with a concentration in cultural anthropology as it relates to the Arab world and in particular the Palestinian question. She also participated in a research project on Italian memoirs from the Nazi concentration camps. Yvonne Freccero has translated widely from French, Italian, and Spanish, including several works by Rene Girard. She lives in Florence, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Interlink Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566566630
• ISBN 13: 9781566566636
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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