{"product_id":"antigone-velocity-salt","title":"ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Fargo Nissim Tbakhi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT.\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 20th, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback ISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646054749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook ISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646054756\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterweaving 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a fragmented retelling, \u003cem\u003eANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT.\u003c\/em\u003e elucidates a political orientation to grieving in the face of power. A non-linear act of burial and a plea for wholeness, \u003cem\u003eANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT.\u003c\/em\u003e is a journey towards repair, in direct and sustained opposition to settler-colonial cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFargo Nissim Tbakhi\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Palestinian performance artist and the author of \u003cem\u003eTERROR COUNTER\u003c\/em\u003e (Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry, Winner of the 2025 Big Other Book Award in Poetry) and \u003cem\u003eANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT.\u003c\/em\u003e (Deep Vellum, 2027).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48814503231737,"sku":"9781646054749","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":48814503264505,"sku":"9781646054756","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/files\/DV_CoverPlaceholderImage.jpg?v=1786568386","url":"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/antigone-velocity-salt","provider":"Deep Vellum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}