Not exactly a flood of resistance novels coming out of the US, no surprise. I'm currently serializing a couple, and yesterday took a look at the counterrevolutionary culture of Empire reacting to the explicit anti Iraq war novel I wrote over two decades ago, in the year of the US invasion: https://fictiongutted.substack.com/p/homefront-chapter-one-and-new-homefront
Includes links to a sociopolitical study of literary oppression in empire. The great novelist of revolution Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o notes in Decolonising The Mind that “…the biggest weapon wielded and actually daily unleashed by imperialism … is the cultural bomb.” This seems to me to be true for the vast majority of places in the world where steel bombs are not dropping, at least not every day, but mind bombs are. And then the one thing leads to and allows the next.
This is a fantastic piece, helping humanize the resistance and understanding the decisions that lead them to today. I havent read the novel, but just from the overview here, it reminds me of The Battle of Algiers, which, like TatC, both tragic and inspiring. Like always, thanks for writing!
I've looked around at all the indie bookstores in TO, the library, ABE, mainstream bookstores, used bookstores and it looks like, barring a miracle, you cant buy a physical copy. It's likely both out of print and being censored.
Available in digital format at Anna's Archive:
https://annas-archive.org/md5/bc02ec75bcdcfcaeb7b9068bc5bbb2c2
also in Arabic for those so endowed
Thank you, although I admit I’m having trouble navigating the website & how to download Sinwar’s book
Where can I find the original arabic version, please?
The Thorn and the Carnation (الشوك والقرنفل)
Yahya Sinwar
https://annas-archive.org/md5/77232a35e9aa1316fd3c19768403798c
شكرا
Great review and overview.
Not exactly a flood of resistance novels coming out of the US, no surprise. I'm currently serializing a couple, and yesterday took a look at the counterrevolutionary culture of Empire reacting to the explicit anti Iraq war novel I wrote over two decades ago, in the year of the US invasion: https://fictiongutted.substack.com/p/homefront-chapter-one-and-new-homefront
Includes links to a sociopolitical study of literary oppression in empire. The great novelist of revolution Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o notes in Decolonising The Mind that “…the biggest weapon wielded and actually daily unleashed by imperialism … is the cultural bomb.” This seems to me to be true for the vast majority of places in the world where steel bombs are not dropping, at least not every day, but mind bombs are. And then the one thing leads to and allows the next.
This is a fantastic piece, helping humanize the resistance and understanding the decisions that lead them to today. I havent read the novel, but just from the overview here, it reminds me of The Battle of Algiers, which, like TatC, both tragic and inspiring. Like always, thanks for writing!
It would be good to know how to obtain a copy. It would be useful, inspirational. I'm in Canada.
I'm at giaschipeter@gmail.com
Let me know....
Peter
I've looked around at all the indie bookstores in TO, the library, ABE, mainstream bookstores, used bookstores and it looks like, barring a miracle, you cant buy a physical copy. It's likely both out of print and being censored.
thanks where can one get a copy,great work, i watch the summary on yt every week,justin has great insights and a good manner of telling
The book can also be found on libgen.is for free
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