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Penguin Random House published a book version of Isabella Hammad's 2023 Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture. The talk was on narrative form and its relationship to discourse around Palestine and Palestinian history through the lens of Anagnorisis. The book form takes the talks original title, Recognizing the Stranger, and adds the subtitle On Palestine and Narrative.
From Penguin Random House's webpage
From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative.
Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. The text of Hammad’s seminal speech and her afterword, written in the early weeks of 2024, together make up a searing appraisal of the war on Palestine during what seems a turning point in the narrative of human history...