The intellectual history of the Middle East is interwoven into the revolutionary history of the global 1960s. However, while it is useful to read this history from the perspective of the New Left and its adaptation in the Middle East, there are dimensions of Palestinian discourse in this period that cannot be explained solely through these political-ideological lenses. A multidisciplinary reading in Palestinian intellectual history of the 1960s, combining the works of academics and literary authors, shows that the Palestinians perceived the results of the 1967 war in epistemic and ontological terms: that is the 1967 war made it clear to Palestinians that Israel is capable of physically erasing Palestine, as well as its history. Moreover, Palestinian response to the war could be described as a fear of epistemic erasure, or total oblivion. Building on the findings of this work, this paper brings together the fields of literature and intellectual history in order to present a more nuanced understanding of Palestinian and Middle Eastern history since the 1960s. In other words, this paper will present the literary manifestations of Palestinian fear of oblivion and the way they intersect with intellectual and academic trends vis-a-vis exemplary works from world literature from this period. The questions that this paper comes to address is: if Palestinians (and Arabs) have been influenced by the same intellectual trends of the Long 1960s, does this mean they share similar literary themes and trends as in world literature? How does Palestinian literature compare to world literature in the 1960s, and what are the similarities and particularities of literary expressions in this period, and what do they tell us about existing intellectual history of the era?