By Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. shatters the myth of Antigone, rebuilding and remixing it into a spiritual inquiry into Palestinian grief and mourning as sites of both settler-colonial violence and indigenous resistance.
Publication Date: July 20th, 2027
Paperback ISBN: 9781646054749
eBook ISBN: 9781646054756
Description
Interweaving scripts for an impossible performance, shards of surrealist mythmaking, and dreams of individual and collective resistance, the book opens with the practice—enshrined into Israeli law—of withholding the bodies of murdered Palestinians from their families. Within Palestinian strategies of resistance, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi locates a slippery, collective Antigone—the tragic Greek mythological figure who sacrifices her life to give her brother a proper burial.
Through a fragmented retelling, ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. elucidates a political orientation to grieving in the face of power. A non-linear act of burial and a plea for wholeness, ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. is a journey towards repair, in direct and sustained opposition to settler-colonial cruelty.
Biographical Note
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist and the author of TERROR COUNTER (Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry, Winner of the 2025 Big Other Book Award in Poetry) and ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. (Deep Vellum, 2027).