For example, just this “genre” of resistance literature came out of the “national liberation struggles and resistance movements in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East,” and if not for the real descriptions of this history, we may not have known the truth about them at all. I rarely link history and literature together, but thanks to Harlow, I finally see how interlinked the two are. While the text focuses more on pro-Palestinian and African literary resistance, Harlow does a great job of explaining the power of such literature in its general sense, a power which I never realized until now: resistance literature seeks to rewrite history and reclaim cultural production for a group of people who have for various amounts of time been denied the control over their own history. Resistance Literature by Barbara Harlow is an excellent diving board into the framework of resistance literature: why it is what it is, what it has to offer society, and who is involved in such “dangerous” endeavors as writing the taboo.
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