An introduction: perennial tensions
The poet and the national literature
Poet under occupation, 1964-1971
Poet of national liberation, 1971-1986
To survive in the world: writing the deep present and the deep past, 1986-1993
Who am I without exile? anxieties of renewal and a national late style, 1995-2008
Parting words: the poet appropriates contingency
Postscript.
Mahmoud Darwish : the poet's art and his nation by Khaled Mattawa. ISBN 9780815633617. Published by Syracuse University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.