Seemingly predictable, there are unexpected surprises.
In her present time she finds out what happens to Jack, and she can hardly bare being responsible for his altered path.Ĭan she be the one that resets time? How will she fare in the brink of losing love? They fall in love madly, but Emme has to find a way to set things right. As Emme is figuring out how all this new magic works, she is revisiting Jack a few more times and inevitable changing his future. He is about to journey to the New World and follow his father’s footsteps. The first time she time travels into the year 1892 England and meets the most handsome and respectful gentleman she has ever encountered. This changes everything for Emma, as her grandmother left her a trail of breadcrumbs to follow, that lead her into becoming a magical library historian.Īs Emme takes over the library and moves permanently into gram's place, she discovers secret books and a ring that were left for her to help her document history. When a call comes in from her childhood friend that her grandma is in the hospital on life support, she does not understand right away how serious the situation is and that her gram is on her death bed.Īrriving just in time, gram is bestowing her with the responsibility of running her library back in Maine. She grew up with her grandmother in a sleepy town in Maine and left that life to explore the world. She is a runner, organizes fundraisers, is well liked with friends and she does not date seriously. That is, her work conjures both a sensuous record of the present-day Israeli settler security apparatus, a violent territorial, ethical, and juridical project that is always registered and affectively felt on indigenous Palestinian Arab bodies, landscapes, and ecologies, as well as a necessary queer feminist recalibration of enduring questions about home, land, collectivity, sensation, embodiment, and sovereign futures beyond settler time.This was such a darling sweet story! Added with time travel and a magic library, voila! Heaven!Įmme enjoys her college life. But, as I will show, Sansour's fantasy work does offer an outside and otherwise that makes it an exemplar of queer feminist visionary aesthetics. In the speculative visualities she constructs, the Palestinian predicament has not simply faded away, rendering the Israeli occupation and broader colonization of Palestine vanquished or dismantled.
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Sansour's creative work invites us to dream outside the dystopian here and now of settler colonial rule in Palestine/Israel, to conjure an otherwise for a people imagined not to have a future, and to reach toward an elsewhere of Palestinian freedom unbridled by the strictures of settler security states.
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By closely reading her science fiction film trilogy series as a form of knowledge and critique, I question what speculative architecture, outer space, and Arab futurisms together might yield for thinking Palestinian sovereignty otherwise. I will argue that a contrapuntal queer feminist analysis of visionary aesthetics in the work of London-based Palestinian visual artist Larissa Sansour provides an alternate perceptual regime through which to understand the "facts-on-the-ground" of contemporary US/Israeli security policing and counterinsurgency warfare. This paper advances queer, feminist, anti-colonial, and indigenous modes of thinking about the futures of Palestine.
Palestine in the Sky: Visionary Aesthetics, Atmospheric Warfare, and the Queer Feminist Utopias of Larissa Sansour
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