#joannachen — Public Fediverse posts

IMHO Writers should not engage in censorship. Nor should they launch bad faith character assassination campaigns against their fellow writers. The editors and staff at #Guernica magazine have done both, and as far as I'm concerned they have nothing further to add to any conversation. #Literature #Publishing #JoannaChen #JinaMoore #CeasefireNow https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/12/guernica-israel-hamas-retraction/

“The magazine stands by its retraction of the work; I do not.” #JinaMoore #JoannaChen #Guernica #Literature #Writing #CeasefireNow cc: @theforward https://forward.com/fast-forward/600601/guernica-editor-who-published-israeli-writers-coexistence-essay-resigns-saying-she-disagreed-with-retraction/

"After hours of interrogation in prison, it became clear what they really wanted. (My wife) is the daughter of a Hamas official and they couldn’t accept that she was reaching out to Israelis. I was being pressured to divorce her. At first, I said no. I had no idea where she was or what was happening to her. Eventually I understood she was in prison but would be released if I divorced her. I signed the papers." #CeasefireNow #RamiAman #JoannaChen https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/voice-across-broken-bridge-talking-rami-aman/

#JinaMooreNgarambe was the editor of #Guernica magazine. She "resigned" today after publishing this essay by #JoannaChen. The essay was retracted by Guernica and re-published in #WashingtonMonthly. IMHO It's well worth reading. #Literature #Publishing #Palestine #CeasefireNow https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/18/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/

“As a translator, I know there are several ways to say the same thing, and every way will highlight or showcase a different facet of the narrative. It depends on the context, it depends on the underground life of words and phrases.” #JoannaChen #NewRepublic #Literature #Politics #Guernica #CeasefireNow
https://newrepublic.com/article/180083/joanna-chen-guernica-essay-israel-interview

We need allies. This is no time to be expelling those we perceive to be heretical. We're not the f***ing Politburo. Are we? #Guernica #JoannaChen #StandingTogether #CeasefireNow https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/19/to-build-an-effective-movement-for-palestine-we-need-every-ally

ICYMI Earlier this month #Guernica magazine (“one of the most prestigious literary publications in the United States”) quietly published, then loudly retracted, this piece by #JoannaChen. Seems the editors enjoy crawling up their own rear ends or something like that. Anyhoo, #WashingtonMonthly picked it up and IMHO it's worth a read. Keep hope alive, y'all. #CeasefireNow https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/18/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/

“#Guernica’s cringeworthy backpedaling is redolent of the self-denunciations of Stalin’s purge victims or the coerced linguistic self-flagellations of academics during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. There’s no effort at genuine debate, no room for competing opinions, no space for historical nuance or complexity; there’s simply a demand that the party line be followed and that those who don’t be immediately censored.” #Literature #JoannaChen #SashaAbramsky cc: @thenation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/guernica-resignations/

“#Guernica’s cringeworthy backpedaling is redolent of the self-denunciations of Stalin’s purge victims or the coerced linguistic self-flagellations of academics during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. There’s no effort at genuine debate, no room for competing opinions, no space for historical nuance or complexity; there’s simply a demand that the party line be followed and that those who don’t be immediately censored.” #Literature #JoannaChen #SashaAbramsky cc: @thenation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/guernica-resignations/

“#Guernica’s cringeworthy backpedaling is redolent of the self-denunciations of Stalin’s purge victims or the coerced linguistic self-flagellations of academics during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. There’s no effort at genuine debate, no room for competing opinions, no space for historical nuance or complexity; there’s simply a demand that the party line be followed and that those who don’t be immediately censored.” #Literature #JoannaChen #SashaAbramsky cc: @thenation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/guernica-resignations/

“#Guernica’s cringeworthy backpedaling is redolent of the self-denunciations of Stalin’s purge victims or the coerced linguistic self-flagellations of academics during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. There’s no effort at genuine debate, no room for competing opinions, no space for historical nuance or complexity; there’s simply a demand that the party line be followed and that those who don’t be immediately censored.” #Literature #JoannaChen #SashaAbramsky cc: @thenation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/guernica-resignations/

“#Guernica’s cringeworthy backpedaling is redolent of the self-denunciations of Stalin’s purge victims or the coerced linguistic self-flagellations of academics during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. There’s no effort at genuine debate, no room for competing opinions, no space for historical nuance or complexity; there’s simply a demand that the party line be followed and that those who don’t be immediately censored.” #Literature #JoannaChen #SashaAbramsky cc: @thenation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/guernica-resignations/

From the Edges of a Broken World – Guernica

https://www.guernicamag.com/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/

At the foot of a page now largely blank because Guernica editorial staff do not want you to read an Israeli writer's essay, the magazine asks for money if "you value Guernica’s role in this era of obfuscation".

Have these people no sense of the ridiculous?

#IsraelPalestine #USJournalism #USCulture #Guernica #JoannaChen

"I discovered Hebrew words I had never come across before. What is the difference between one variety of fig and another? In Hebrew, the words are meticulous: the verb le’erot, for example, which refers to the act of plucking figs from a tree, is grounded in the word for light, orr, since figs must be picked as early in the day as possible." #MeirShalev #JoannaChen #Literature #Poetry #Hebrew #Hebrew https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/translation-and-the-terebinth/

“That doesn’t mean empathy isn’t a start, though. Which is why the retraction of the article is more than an act of cowardice and a betrayal of a writer whose work the magazine shepherded to publication. It’s a betrayal of the task of literature, which cannot end wars but can help us see why people wage them, oppose them, or become complicit in them.” #Guernica #TheAtlantic #Publishing #Literature #JoannaChen #PhilKlay #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #CeasefireNow https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/guernica-retracted-essay-joanna-chen/677738/

This piece by #JoannaChen was published, then retracted, by #Guernica, "one of the most prestigious literary publications in the United States". #Publishing #Literature #Politics https://web.archive.org/web/20240305095742/https:/www.guernicamag.com/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/