tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post68254203667037286..comments2024-01-15T05:26:06.518+00:00Comments on THOUGHTS OF XANADU: nakbaKubla Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-91715024634727108392008-09-15T12:59:00.000+01:002008-09-15T12:59:00.000+01:00you are quite right in what you say.to recognize n...you are quite right in what you say.to recognize nakba is a different issue from talking about it. Literary silence about it is in bad taste. may be the politics can be understood......but then, it is politics in literature too?<BR/><BR/>i think the Arabs have not been able to paint the picture of nakba that it demands. i think the reason is that in essence, the palestinians, at present stateless, will have to keep alive themselves. the rejection they have suffered at the hands of other Arabs is unbelievable, apart from the token conferences, aid and rhetoric.<BR/><BR/>the jewish reluctance to accept the nakba is their own negation, the negation of their moral existence. <BR/>i wonder what a lacanian analysis would suggest?Kubla Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-27064236951174255822008-09-15T01:02:00.000+01:002008-09-15T01:02:00.000+01:00If you think of art, literature etc yes I do agree...If you think of art, literature etc yes I do agree. There hasn't been as much representation as Jewish holocaust. Many other genocides and forced mass scale migrations have suffered similar fates too. <BR/><BR/>Daily News however is always full of middle east and I don't think all of it is hostile to the palestinian cause either but yes they are quite impersonal in nature. They lack something which is possible only in art and literature.<BR/><BR/>Jewish culture was so vibrant in Germany and central europe before the holocaust, that is one reason why there is so much representation of holocaust. They had a long established tradition.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.com