Minding (About) the Gazan Border in Contemporary Palestinian Literature
The Gazan border, as both a highly topical and sensitive issue, embodies the threatened state of Palestinian life at large and is central to contemporary Gazan writers and artists, whether they live inside or outside Gaza. In a sense, their art and literature seem to be trapped by the ongoing confli...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | The Gazan border, as both a highly topical and sensitive issue, embodies the threatened state of Palestinian life at large and is central to contemporary Gazan writers and artists, whether they live inside or outside Gaza. In a sense, their art and literature seem to be trapped by the ongoing conflict with Israel and the current political situation in the region, to which they cannot but respond. As I highlight in the article, not only does fiction expose the violence and suffering of Gazan life under siege, it also challenges territorial fragmentation by transgressing the colonial map imposed by Israel and by defining counter-geographies. |
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