Palestine 1492: A Report Back
by Linda Quiquivix (Author and Illustrator)
Paperback: $25.00
Cloth: $45.00
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Edition: 1st
Rights: World
Language: English
Pages: 350
ISBN Paperback: 978-1-7371900-3-5
ISBN Cloth: 978-1-7371900-4-2
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Color: Black and White
Images: 90 illustrations, 65 maps, 28 photographs, 12 figures
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Reviews
A voyage from Turtle Island to Palestine not only through the lens of someone who has crystal clear transnational awareness of the U.S. settler-colonial project (including the satellite Zionist entity), but entwined in this narrative is the voice of Palestinians themselves, imbued with an admirable sense of praxis and heart. Here Quiquivix sings a song indigenous communities all over the world can close their eyes to with a dark sense of déjà vu and walk away wielding something glowing, new.
—Thaer Husien, author of Beside the Sickle Moon: A Palestinian Story
Quiqui’s words remind us that we do not face new struggles, only new masks on old struggles. Her book reminds us that the only way out is through–side by side.
—David Michael Pritchett, author of Mossback: Ecology, Emancipation, and Foraging for Hope in Painful Places
It is a meditation; it’s therapy, history class, geography class, and inter-ethnic healing salve. It says what we’ve been feeling and thinking, releasing us from isolating sensations of disorientation, calling us together back to our humanness.
—Peacefulseeker
And our divinity.
About the Book
Palestine 1492 is a report back of what I see from 500 years of the struggle for life in words, maps, and images in the seven cardinal directions and in the spiral that is time.
In Maya geography, there is east, west, south, and north, and there is also earth and sky. In the middle there is you, a meeting place between the physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental that together make up the social, a meeting place between earth and sky.
East, the physical, begins this report back by orienting us in a corner of Mother Earth still holding a stubborn insistence on life: Palestine.
West, the spiritual, helps diagnose an illness of a wounded, imbalanced, and dangerous world imposed globally since 1492.
In the South, the emotional, Chiapas nourishes our courage from below in a time of World Wars and global rebellions.
In the North, the mental, we flip the world on its head but not to remain, to help plan our common escape.
Throughout, I share conclusions Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers, and jaguars have taught me along this journey: that this world itself is unethical, and that changing it is difficult, even impossible. If after reading you also believe this to be true, may we dismantle this world together and help build a new one from below and in common, together and side by side.
About the Author
Linda Quiquivix is a geographer and popular educator raised by Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers, and jaguars. Learn more about her work at quiqui.org
Acknowledgements
This book was midwived over six years by an Iranian compa and volunteer-edited by Palestinian, Egyptian, and Mexican compas. The charcoals used in the illustrations were gifts from the fires of anti-Zionist Jewish shepherds, a border-transgressing Indigenous compa, and the midwife’s Palo Santo stick.
Contents
EAST: Palestine from Below
1. Palestine Diary, 2010-2011
2. When the Rooftops Are Streets
3. To Die Standing
4. Panthers and Jaguars
WEST: Palestine from Above
5. Speak of the Devil
6. Wounded Europe
7. Jerusalem Next
8. A World Cut In Two
9. The Last Crusade
10. Palestine Counter-Maps
11. The Wretched of the Empire
SOUTH: The Fourth World War
12. The Third World War
13. Capital
14. Downward Assimilation
15. Globalization from Below
16. Dying in Order to Live
NORTH: A World Where All the Worlds Fit
17. Above vs Below
18. Side by Side
19. Strategy and Tactics
20. The Common
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