The Specters of Nation and Narration

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dc.contributor.advisorHamamra, Bilal
dc.contributor.authorAbusamra, Sanaa
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-15T08:05:33Z
dc.date.available2018-01-15T08:05:33Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-01
dc.description.abstractSince 1948, the Israeli occupation has strived to push Palestinians and Palestine to the sphere of absence to legitimize their presence and claim over Palestine. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a conflict of narratives over a nation (Palestine), revealing that the nation is discursively constructed and power structures are created and controlled through discourse. Thus, in response to the Zionist discourse that justifies and legitimizes the presence (establishment) of Israel and obliterates and negates the Palestinians and Palestine, many Palestinian authors such as Ghassan Kanafani, Samih al-Qasim, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Fadwa Touqan, Sahar Khalifeh, Mahmoud Darwish, among many others, orchestrated their literary works with themes of exile, psychological trauma, nostalgia and return. In other words, they have put their pens at the service of the nation so as to reclaim the absent paradise (Palestine). In this paper, I will explain the ghostliness of the self, land and language in Mahmoud Darwish’s self-eulogy, Absent Presence (2006/2010), drawing on Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1993/1994) and Barthes’ post-structural seminal (ghostly) text, “The Death of The Author” (1967).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11888/12871
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Languages and linguistics::Other languages::Arabic languageen_US
dc.subjectabsenceen_US
dc.subjectdeathen_US
dc.subjectghostsen_US
dc.subjectpresenceen_US
dc.subjectremembranceen_US
dc.subjectspectersen_US
dc.subjecttextualityen_US
dc.titleThe Specters of Nation and Narrationen_US
dc.typeGraduation Projecten_US
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