Summary
Author of the Foreword, “What Changes the World? Bearing Witness to the Truth”, to the later printing of Palestine Inside Out (foreword copyright 2010) (Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, PDF p.13, p.23-27).
Details
- Walker places the book in a line of witness-writing (Dickens, Stowe, Douglass, Hugo) and frames reading it as bearing witness (PDF p.23, p.27).
- Her parable of colonisation: strangers who have “drawn maps that have your “territory” on it like a large pie, and they are busy dividing up slices of it. You, sitting by your fire, your little ones clamoring for a bedtime story or another mango, date, olive, or fig, are not on the map at all.” (PDF p.25)
- She anticipates the American reader’s thought of paying, in taxes, “over a trillion dollars since 1948” for the suffering described — given as an imagined realisation, with no source on the page (PDF p.27).