Re-reading Suheir Hammad's The Gaza Suite in 2024
MARTA CARIELLO
Abstract
In light of the ongoing annihilation of Gaza and decades of international indifference to the Palestinian struggle against occupation, this is an invitation to re-read Suheir Hammad’s the gaza suite fifteen years after it was written. The powerful series of five poems embodies the language of the crisis that Gaza was in 2009, and is evermore today, fleshing out the violence of colonialism and the breaking point of Western modernity in that strip of besieged land.
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Gaza; Suheir Hammad; language of crisis; Palestinian American poetry
Pages
112-116