“The motive for realism is never the confirmation of reality but protest.” —Alexander Kluge

“I want my stories to be one hundred percent realistic while at the same time presenting something unseen.” —Ghassan Kanafani

In this episode, join your hosts Sebastian Kokesch and James Crane for a discussion of the necessary connection between aesthetic autonomy and revolutionary political commitment in Ghassan Kanafani's best-known literary writings in English translation: Men in The Sun ('62), All That’s Left to You ('66), & Returning to Haifa ('69). From the perspective of the 'undivided' project of Ghassan Kanafani—as novelist, critic, and militant—we read each of these novels as a contribution to the same culture of resistance he theorized and organized.

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