Join Bloomsbury author Salam Darwazah Mir as she discusses her book, Transnational Literature of Resistance: Guyana and Palestine, 1950s-1980s. Her book examines resistance literatures from Guyana – a British exploitation colony – and Palestine – a settler-colony – at a specific historical moment, by contesting the provinciality and Eurocentric focus of comparative literature, delivering the discipline’s universal objectives, and expanding the discipline’s practice by comparing two literatures and histories from the Global South.

Salam Darwazah Mir is an independent scholar in the US and previously Associate Professor of English, Lasell University. At Lasell, she lauched Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies in 2009 and taught several literature courses. She has previously taught at the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. She is a book review editor at Arab Studies Quarterly.