Palestinian political prisoners : identity and community / Esmail Nashif.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-225) and index.

Introduction: slippery position(s), unsettled setting(s) -- The position(s) -- The research -- The community -- The book -- Notes on gender, language, and politics -- Claiming the colonial -- History of the conflict -- The war of June 1967: recognizing colonialism in Palestine -- Conclusion -- Building the community: the body, the material conditions, and the communication networks -- Introduction -- The history as told and written -- The body of the community -- Conclusion -- Structures of a revolutionary pedagogy: instituting signification -- Introduction -- Writing the history of the prison -- Dissecting the practices from the arrested social body -- Some concluding remarks -- The textual formation of subjects: interrogation as a rite of passage -- Introduction -- A manual for the novice -- Tracing the discursive formations -- Conclusion -- The hidden intellectual: lecturing political captivity -- Introduction -- Lecturing captivity: agency, self and linguistic activities -- Textual strategies and structures: the architecture of the lecture -- The intellectual colonial junctures of Palestine: the unbearable lightness of resolutions -- Conclusion -- The three domains: the aesthetic representing and forming of the national -- Introduction -- The context of novelizing the hidden -- Tracing the threads of the novelistic practices -- The possibilities of world vision(s) -- Conclusion.