Hall, J. (2015) ‘Shared sorrow, shared abundance: Water-waste flows in Palestinian literature†’, Postcolonial Studies, 18(3), pp. 257–278. doi: 10.1080/13688790.2015.1105124.

Abstract: News following the 2014 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip warned of the possibly catastrophic costs to Palestinians facing a clean water shortage. This article will argue that within the context of the occupation of the Palestinian territories, literary representations of water and waste are bound up in justifications for and resistance to the Israeli state's exercise of necropolitical power. Representing water and, particularly, polluted water is vexed by questions of who is responsible for the management of water and the production of waste versus who is responsible for the inability, often exacerbated by water shortages, to remediate this waste. This article will examine how these questions are answered by one Israeli and three Palestinian contemporary authors: David Grossman, Anton Shammas, Sahar Khalifeh, and Taha Muhammad Ali.

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