EPISODE · Sep 8, 2010
Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography
from Yale University: Humanities · host Whitney Humanities Center
In her 2008 Franke Lecture, essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman talks about the relation between the life of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali and the “erased landscape” of his former village, what Robert Frost calls “a town that is no more a town.”
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Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century, a biography of Taha Muhammad Ali, published by Yale University Press. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, Raritan, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, New York Newsday, World Literature Today, and on the World Service of the BBC. In her 2008 Franke Lecture, Hoffman talks about the relation between the life of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali and the erased physical and psychic landscape of his former village.
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