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  • Against a reading of a sacred landscape: Raja Shehadeh rewrites the Palestinian presence in Palestinian Walks

    Author(s):
    Hania A.M. Nashef (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Arab and Arab American, Critical Studies in World Literature, GS Nonfiction Prose, LLC Arabic, Postcolonial Literature
    Subject(s):
    Middle East--Palestine, Area studies, Reportage literature, Place (Philosophy), Space, Arab countries, Imperialism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    marginalized populations, scriptural geography, Non-fiction, Palestine studies, Literary journalism, Postcolonial literature, Space and place, Arab world, Colonialism
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/ggxa-jw77
    Abstract:
    ABSTRACT In his introduction to Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh remarks that in spite of the great number of travelers to Palestine, travel literature, for the most part, willfully ignored the living experience and existence of the land’s inhabitants. Often, Palestine was the imaginary place that was continuously invented to confirm religious and political beliefs. The Biblical imagination, along with the orientalist gaze, informed the accounts, and anything that did not correspond to the preconceived repertoire was quickly discarded. The native inhabitants were the first victims. At best professed the savage other, they were not considered the land’s rightful owners. Palestine was symbolically colonized in the Western imagination long before the British mandate. This vanishing homeland is a subject that dominates Shehadeh’s nonfiction narrative. Accounts of his walks expose parts of his homeland’s beauty and rewrite the Palestinian presence in its place, providing a counter-narrative to the Biblical imagination.
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    Pub. DOI:
    DOI: 10.1080/01440357.2020.1850168
    Publisher:
    Taylor and Francis
    Pub. Date:
    Nov. 25, 2020
    Journal:
    Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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