Calling without calling: Barghouti, Derrida and 'the international day of telephones'. Issue 9 (2nd September 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Calling without calling: Barghouti, Derrida and 'the international day of telephones'. Issue 9 (2nd September 2022)
- Main Title:
- Calling without calling: Barghouti, Derrida and 'the international day of telephones'
- Authors:
- Jackson, Sarah
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Drawing on research into telecommunications in the region by Helga Tawil-Souri (2013, 2015), this essay focuses on the literary, cultural and political implications of telephony in Israel-Palestine. Analysing the telephone in Mourid Barghouti's I Saw Ramallah (2000) and I Was Born There, I Was Born Here (2011), I argue that Barghouti's memoirs of exile are structured by an impossible logic where picking up the phone means not getting through. Demonstrating the ways that the lines of communication within and between communities are crossed, complicated, and often cut entirely, I point to the ways that the oppressive religious, political and geographical boundaries are not only mirrored but also significantly extended through the telecommunications infrastructure in the occupied territories. The essay reads Barghouti alongside Jacques Derrida's account of telephoning in Israel in 'Avowing – The Impossible' (1998). Suggesting new connecting lines between the texts, I examine how Israeli control of airspace, infrastructure, and cellular networks contribute to Eyal Weizman's (2007) model of the vertical architecture of the state – how, in effect, using the telephone for both Barghouti and Derrida recalls the Blanchotian syntagma of ' X sans X ': calling without calling.
- Is Part Of:
- Textual practice. Volume 36:Issue 9(2022)
- Journal:
- Textual practice
- Issue:
- Volume 36:Issue 9(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 36, Issue 9 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 9
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0036-0009-0000
- Page Start:
- 1393
- Page End:
- 1412
- Publication Date:
- 2022-09-02
- Subjects:
- Telephony -- telecommunications -- Palestine -- Barghouti -- Derrida -- deconstruction
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Criticism -- Periodicals
Criticism, Textual -- Periodicals
Semiotics -- Periodicals
801.95 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtpr20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0950236X.asp ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/0950236X.2021.1900380 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0950-236X
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 8813.780460
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