Transnational Literature of Resistance: Guyana and Palestine, 1950s-1980s

Fills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking two modern cultures from the Global South. Transnational Literature of Resistance compares and contrasts resistance literatures from Guyana - a British exploitation colony - and Palestine - a settler colony - at a specific historical moment.Salam Darwazah Mir contests the provinciality and Eurocentric focus of comparative literature; delivers the discipline’s universal objectives; and expands the discipline’s practice by comparing two literatures and histories from the Global South.Mir situates the literatures within their wider historical and literary heritage, a move that links the two countries from within the colonial/imperial framework.She argues that the British invasion of the protectorate of British Guiana in 1953 and the founding of the settler colony in Palestine in 1948, with imperial Britain at the helm, are colonial acts to strengthen and sustain Empire.The two c