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Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank By KareemRabie. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.

Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank. KareemRabie. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments She would like to offer thanks to Charles E. Morris III for the opportunity to participate in this forum and for his always insightful engagement with her work, and to the Maine writing retreat participants who provided feedback on early portions of this essay Notes 1. Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 10. 2. Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 167, 157. 3. David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, “Beyond Gay Pride,” in Gay Shame, ed. David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 3. 4. Halperin and Traub, “Beyond Gay Pride,” 3. 5. Gould, Moving Politics, 70. 6. Gould, Moving Politics, 71–2. 7. Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 2. 8. Gould, Moving Politics, 88–9. 9. Debra Levine, “Demonstration of Care: The ACT UP Oral Histories on Video,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 16, no. 3 (2010): 442. 10. Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings, 170. 11. Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings, 173. 12. Michael Hardt, “Foreword: What Affects Are Good For,” in The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, ed. Patricia Ticineto Clough with Jean Halley (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), ix; Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg, The Affect Theory Reader (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 12–13. 13. Gould, Moving Politics, 23. 14. Sally R. Munt, Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007), 103, 203, 216. 15. Jennifer Moon, “Gay Shame and the Politics of Identity,” in Gay Shame, 360. 16. “GAY SHAME Seeks Nominations for Annual Shame Awards,” Gay Shame San Francisco, http://www.gayshamesf.org/awards2003.html. 17. Halperin and Traub, “Beyond Gay Pride,” 9; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 37. 18. Douglas Crimp, “Mario Montez, for Shame,” in Gay Shame, 72; Kathryn Bond Stockton, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 27. 19. For a particularly pointed criticism of the kinds of privilege enacted in discussions of shame, see: Judith Halberstam, “Shame and White Gay Masculinity,” Social Text 23, no. 3–4 (2005): 219–233. 20. Halperin and Traub, “Beyond Gay Pride,” 25. 21. Munt, Queer Attachments, 87, 102. 22. Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 14. 23. Love, Feeling Backward, 19. Additional informationNotes on contributorsErin J. RandErin J. Rand is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University

Reviewed by: My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance by David A. McDonald Lisa Urkevich My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance. By David A. McDonald. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. [xix, 338 p. ISBN 9780822354680 (hardcover), $94.95; ISBN 9780822354796 (paperback), $25.95; (e-book), various.] Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. David McDonald’s My Voice is My Weapon investigates protest songs and performers of the Palestinian Resistance, and in doing so, provides the first thorough examination of the relationship between Palestinian nationalism and musical expression. McDonald demonstrates that, in the absence of political and economic means, Palestinians dwelling in different geographic zones can often only unite and reveal sentiments through communicative media like music. The songs provide a forum for subaltern/nationalist ideologies and promote powerful feelings “of national identity both within and between communities in ’48 (Israel), in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip (al-bilād), and in exile (al-ghūrba) (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon)” (p. 39). But beyond this, songs frequently have a greater purpose, in that they actually generate sentiments, shape national identities, and provide a space for signifying power structures. As the title suggests, the voice, the song, is the weapon, not just a mirror, but the tool of action or defense. The introduction and first chapter discuss theory and methodology, noting that the approach blends historical and ethnographic modalities to explore the cultural meanings of the music. McDonald then presents a historical overview of the canon of Palestinian Resistance song, as chapters 2–5 focus on works within the changing social and political landscape dating from the late Ottoman period into the twenty-first century. The second half of the book departs from the general historical narrative with a chronological ethnographic perspective, first concentrating on the career and life of the musical artist Kamāl Khalīl, and then concluding with the activities of the Palestinian hip-hop group DAM, which at the time of McDonald’s research presented a new direction in Resistance songs that was taking hold among youth in the West Bank and Israel, where the band resides. Through accounts spanning almost a century, McDonald elucidates the fact that cultural perspectives shift, as does the nature of the musical compositions under consideration. Following the introductory material, chapter 2 opens with a brief description of present-day displaced Palestinians who come weekly to a Jordanian tourist site atop a mountain to look down at the “ancestral lands they are prohibited from ever visiting” (p. 36). Here, a group of young girls sing a famed folk song of the Palestine al-nakba (“catastrophe,” i.e., 1948 exodus) with text such as, “It is better to be killed by daggers than ruled by the unjust” (ibid.). Following this, the topic jumps to the songs of Nuḥ Ibrāhīm (b. 1913), a Resistance poet who represents the early feelings toward Zionist expansion before 1948, before al-nakba. His works, composed in a colloquial style and dialect, appealed to rural, [End Page 146] nonliterate villagers of the time. For instance, he set texts to the traditional musical art of muḥāwara, sung dueling, but rather than have tribes or Arab groups engage in an improvisatory verbal battle as was the traditional approach (Lisa Urkevich, Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula [New York: Routledge, 2015], 22), Ibrāhīm’s most famous muḥāwara has preset lyrics pitting Zionist against Arab, e.g., “A[rab]: I’ll erase the name of Zionism in the protection of my country Palestine.” “Z[ionist]: My wealth is from lies, and I must own Palestine” (p. 47). The modern-day protest singing of the Palestinian girls at the Jordanian tourist site, who arguably represent the future, juxtaposed with Ibrāhīm’s long-ago defiant “folk genre” piece, demonstrate the extraordinary breadth, length, and perseverance of the Palestinian struggle. This sets the tone for the historical stages presented on the subsequent pages. At various points in the text, McDonald notes the fact that protest songs were not just generated by Palestinians, but were penned by those from the greater Arab world as well. Beginning...

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Part 1 Introduction - nationalism and Palestinians: Palestinian Israeli conflict and nationalism nationalism as an ideology of boundedness space and time homogenization and state-building national identities - self and other, nation/ethnicity as family key issues and analytical scheme discussion on method. Part 2 From elite to mass based revolution: factionalism and early elite mobilization formulation of Palestinian nationalism great revolt and popular proto-nationalism catastrophe and dispersal arab nationalism as dominant discourse 1948-1967 nationalism of al-Fateh PLO between nationalism and patriotism, between unity and liberation - Arabism and Marxist fronts, struggle, revolution and exile, institution-building, class, gender,m refugees, Arab states and PLO, steps towards shifting goals and strategies 1974. Part 3 From intifada to self-government: Israeli politics towards occupied territories Palestinian politics prior to intifada - West Bank, Gaza intifada - institution-building and leadership organization, nationalism of intifada, end to intifada Islamism as counter-discourse - as an organisation, Islamic Jihad, Islamist movement and Palestinian nationalism, Islamic movements and struggle. Part 4 State-building and peace process: state building - institution-building and political structure, revolution versus state-building state-building - is country to be made - agreements - the best of worse, Fateh - state-building party and internal opposition leftist opposition - long term solution - a democratic state in all of Palestine Islamism - agreements - we are true owners of Palestine, long-term solution - we have to get rid of Israel from this area reformism - agreements - will retain authority. Part 5 Palestinian identity - border construction: denial state to struggle to suffer identities in negotiation -remnants of Arabism, identity betrayed, Islam, nationalism and identity - Islam is main thing Palestinian national authority - official nationalism - we don't have magic stick -leftism and PNA - it is so limited, so poor, so bad, Islamism and authority - if they don't succeed, are people to fill gaps, reformism and authority - there is much to be hoped for internal conflicts - official nationalism - Hamas are our brothers inside-outside - have to change their mentality. Part 6 Perceptions of other. (Part contents).