Resistance Literature Quotes

“Algerians, however, for whom Camus had once played an exemplary role, reread his early novel in a more critical light when the writer visited Algeria in the 1950s, only to speak out there against the Algerian struggle for independence and in favor of federation with France. In an open letter to Camus in 1959, Ahmed Taleb, imprisoned at the time in France for activities connected with events in Algeria, wrote:
Ten years ago we were a handful of young Algerians, seated at our school desks and imbued with your work. And, even if you were not our spiritual inspiration, you atleast provided for us a model of writing. ... Ten years have now elapsed and our disillusion with you is as great as our hopes once were. Much water has flowed under the bridges. Let us say rather much blood. And how many tears have fallen on the Algerian land that once inspired pages of such beauty from you.47”
― Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature

“lgerians, however, for whom Camus had once played an exemplary role, reread his early novel in a more critical light
when the writer visited Algeria in the 1950s, only to speak out there against the Algerian struggle for independence and in favor
of federation with France. In an open letter to Camus in 1959, Ahmed Taleb, imprisoned at the time in France for activities
connected with events in Algeria, wrote:
Ten years ago we were a handful of young Algerians, seated at our school desks and imbued with your work. And, even if you
were not our spiritual inspiration, you atleast provided for us a model of writing. ... Ten years have now elapsed and our disillusion with you is as great as our hopes once were. Much
water has flowed under the bridges. Let us say rather much blood. And how many tears have fallen on the Algerian land that once inspired pages of such beauty from you.47”
― Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature

“the end of colonialism
meant the beginning and the travail of uncertain national selfhood... The solutions of the past, of identity and tradition, no longer
sufficed to provide a sense of continuous history and active
agency in the unfolding of that history.”
― Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature

“Because he had forged a new
culture in the struggle, he fell as a combatant.16”
― Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature

“Kanafani's obituary in the Daily
Star, a Beirut English-language newspaper, described him as the
"commando who never fired a gun" and went on to say that "his
weapon was a ballpoint pen and his arena newspaper pages. And
he hurt the enemy more than a column of commandos.”
― Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature