Cambridge University Press and Assessment would like to apologise for the following errors in this reviewReference Sawafta 1.
The sentence ‘It provides a near-complete portrait of Nasrallah—who is among the most important living Palestine novelists—and elucidates his lifelong dedication to the novel as a medium, one capable of housing the history of Palestine and the Palestines.’
Should read ‘It provides a near-complete portrait of Nasrallah—who is among the most important living Palestinian novelists—and elucidates his lifelong dedication to the novel as a medium, one capable of housing the history of Palestine and the Palestinians.
The sentence ‘It accounts for their shifting locations that only begin with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestines of Israel, and those in the remaining fifty-nine official refugee camps… [in] Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as the long lives lived in exile and the diaspora” (p. 11).’
Should read ‘It accounts for their shifting locations that only begin with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinians of Israel, and those in the remaining fifty-nine official refugee camps… [in] Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as the long lives lived in exile and the diaspora” (p. 11).’
The sentence ‘Part 2, titled “Seeing, Telling, Power,” examines the structural boundaries of violence and its impact on Palestine narrative by and large.’
Should read ‘Part 2, titled “Seeing, Telling, Power,” examines the structural boundaries of violence and its impact on Palestinian narrative by and large’
The sentence ‘In short, what makes a Palestine in the literal and metaphorical senses, and what is a novel citizen?’
Should read ‘In short, what makes a Palestinian in the literal and metaphorical senses, and what is a novel citizen?’
The sentence ‘Through this analysis, the composition of the Palestine, as suggested in Chapter 6, is rather than becomes’
Should read ‘Through this analysis, the composition of the Palestinian, as suggested in Chapter 6, is rather than becomes.’
The sentence ‘The archetypes and tropes that persist in Palestine cultural and political identities are not necessarily the result of a conscious or deliberate construction of national identity or foundational myth; rather they develop as the result of dynamic and difficult lived realities necessary for survival on the micro and macro levels, individually and communally’
Should read ‘The archetypes and tropes that persist in Palestinian cultural and political identities are not necessarily the result of a conscious or deliberate construction of national identity or foundational myth; rather they develop as the result of dynamic and difficult lived realities necessary for survival on the micro and macro levels, individually and communally’
The sentence ‘So long as Palestine narrators are active and creative agents of national production, Palestine and its people can be gathered in their own constellation; the nation is unlimited and ubiquitous.’
Should read ‘So long as Palestinian narrators are active and creative agents of national production, Palestine and its people can be gathered in their own constellation; the nation is unlimited and ubiquitous.’
The article has been corrected.
