dc.contributor.author | Varma, Elizabeth Meera | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-13T11:15:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-13T11:15:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-09-13 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14272 | |
dc.description | This thesis also examines literary considerations such as memoir as a genre, use of figurative language, and authorial presence. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines representations of nationhood, exile, belonging and nostalgia in three Palestinian memoirs: Ghada Karmi’s In Search of Fatima (2002), Mourid Barghouti’s I Saw Ramallah (1997) and Aziz Shihab’s Does the Land Remember Me? (2007). For diasporic Palestinians (such as these three) who are denied access to Palestine as a geographical entity, Palestine exists most strongly in and through narrative. As such, I examine the extent to which these memoirs are acts of nation-building. I explore the impact that living in exile has on the authors’ construction of personal and national identity, and the extent to which exile inhibits their ability to belong. Finally, I suggest that although these memoirs do not offer explicit solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, they are important as measured, reasonable and imaginative acts of nation-building that dramatize and make accessible the plight of the Palestinian nation. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Palestine, Identity, Nationhood, National Belonging, Exile, Return, Nostalgia, Representation | en_US |
dc.title | Writing Palestine: Personal and National Identity Construction in Exile | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2011-08-25 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of English | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | N/A | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Dr. Len Diepeveen | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Teresa Heffernan, Dr. Dorota Glowacka | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Dr. Carrie Dawson | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |