Book Review: Palestine and Modern Arab Poetry
Abstract
102 Race & Class support this change - because it is ours.' The films are not easy. The contemplative style and austere sound- track are quite unfamiliar to the British television audience. We have to work, to draw our own conclusions. But Nicaragua repays the attention it demands; the four films together provide the kaleidoscope of power- ful images and experiences of struggle which challenge any visitor to the region. It does have to be shown and seen in sequence and in its entirety and it is a shame that Channel 4 did not have more courage and put out the films on consecutive nights rather than weekly. The very fact that the films refuse to construct a deceptive illusion of coherence is precise- ly why they offer us a valuable aid to understanding the process of creating a democracy, what it really means to build a revolution. They deserve to be presented in the most appropriate format. London JOHN BEVAN Palestine and Modern Arab Poetry By KHALID A. SULAIMAN (London, Zed Press, 1984). 281pp. 18.95 cloth, 6.95 paper. Ghassan Kanafani was the first critic to apply the term 'resistance' to Palestinian poetry and literature in his 1966