The Confiscated Dreams: Occupation and the City in Khalifeh’s Writings

Wisam MANSOUR

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The Confiscated Dreams: Occupation and the City in Khalifeh’s Writings

Yazarlar:

Wisam MANSOUR

Yayıncı:

Yalova University

Dergi:

Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 2007 Vol.6 Issue 3&4, pp.60-71

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2007

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000665544

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

1303-5525

pISSN:

2146-0809

Özet:

 


Sahar Khalifeh, a Palestinian academician and novelist, explores in her narratives, among other things,the impact of occupation on the day-to-day life of Palestinians in their cities and villages. In her 1980Sunflower, Khalifeh vividly portrays the city of Nablus from the perspectives of several male andfemale characters who view the city and themselves under occupation from the perspectives of class,gender, ethnicity and situatedness. Cut off from the outside by military occupation, cordoned byhostile settlements, and impaired sexually and emotionally, the city and its inhabitants in Khalifeh’snarrative suffer from excessive atrophy. As a result of its devastating effect on the growth of the city,Khalifeh perceives in occupation vicious machinery that consumes up the land and the people creatinga wasteland, a system of physical debris and human dereliction. Urban entropy is at work in Nabluswhere chaos threatens order and urban forms of death intrude upon the social in the form of sexualimpotence, and upon the commercial and economic processes in the form of obfuscation, confiscationand destruction of the city’s resources and green belts.

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Makale detayları

The Confiscated Dreams: Occupation and the City in Khalifeh’s Writings

Yazarlar: Wisam MANSOUR

Yayıncı: Yalova University

Dergi: Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 2007 Vol.6 Issue 3&4, pp.60-71

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2007

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000665544

Sıklık: Aylık

eISSN: 1303-5525

pISSN: 2146-0809

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Wisam MANSOUR

Yayıncı:

Yalova University

Dergi:

Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 2007 Vol.6 Issue 3&4, pp.60-71

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2007

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000665544

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

1303-5525

pISSN:

2146-0809