Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,1 (2019) 101-120
Keywords:
Abulhawa, Susan.
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American fiction Palestinian American authors
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History and criticism
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Arab-Israeli conflict Literature and the conflict
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Women, Palestinian Arab
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Refugees in literature
Abstract:
This article discusses how Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin, its thematic concerns and aesthetics, are developed in tandem with the discourse of diaspora and exilic consciousness leading to critical praxis. It traces the interactions between exilic consciousness and identity construction in the context of resistance literature. These interactions exhibit the author's ability to be inside and outside discourses of struggle producing a model in which exile challenges bigoted struggles, hence the evolution of critical praxis. In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Abulhawa represents another humanistic voice that resists dominant political narratives by dismantling their hegemonic power structure.
DOI:
10.3366/hlps.2019.0204
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