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145625
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In The Secret Life of Saeed, the Pessoptimist, Emile Habiby (1922–1996) addresses the question of Palestinian historiography during the Mandate period through Al-Nakba of 1948 and the second defeat of the Arabs by Israel, in the 1967 June War. Having remained in what became Israel, the Palestinian writer tells the history from the Palestinian perspective and from the “insider's” perspective, to rehabilitate the misperceptions about Arabs and their story. This article will argue that The Pessoptimist, the Palestinian national epic, challenges the mono-vision of the Israeli/Western version that has disseminated myths about what occurred between 1947 and 1948. By inserting into the creative writing the oral history told by Palestinians to their children and grandchildren, and which had failed entry into the official Israeli/western version, Habiby's narrative sets the record straight regarding the labeling of Palestinian resistance fighters as “terrorists.” Constructing a history that refuses to lament, The Pessoptimist voices a distinct Palestinian voice, a dignified identity that claims agency for its own destiny.
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143128
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Although the reputation of poet Mourid Barghouti (b. 1944) in the west rests on two personal memoirs, this article suggests that Barghouti's poetry deserves equal recognition. The long poem in Midnight and Other Poems (2005), the subject of this article, wrestles with the options of the modern exile. Suffused with memory, I argue that Midnight opens a creative window out of multiple historical sites and personal encounters that interrogates the notions of modernity and progress, victory and loss, and nationalism and patriotism. Out of political dilemmas emerge a beauty in words of resistance and defiance, “guns of mutiny” with deep ethical responsibility toward humanity. From within spiritual orphanage and alienation, Barghouti constructs clear, concrete poetry, an aesthetic that articulates the Palestinian memory, crossing borders of history, geography, and literary traditions. Midnight's tender poetic images reposition the Palestinian exile alongside other unique voices worldwide within memory studies.
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123609
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124612
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2013.
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The personal struggle and creative achievement of Fadwa Tuqan (1917-2003), one of the most celebrated poets in the Arab world, signify the plight of the Palestinian people in the twentieth century. Her autobiography, A Mountainous Journey, An Autobiography, integrates the personal and collective struggle within the context of Arab-Muslim history. This article will explore the established poet's shift to the confessional genre as the Palestinian Muslim woman writer investigates the historical events that befell her people. Inspired by "Poets of Resistance," I argue that the underpinnings of Tuqan's investigation of the Arab-Muslim tradition proffer an authentic, commanding voice that constructs an alternative history, challenging the dominant patriarchal paradigms. What emerges is a singular feminine voice that forges an identity that goes beyond the nightmare of history. In both the poetry and personal memoir, Tuqan's career and groundbreaking voice signify an early empowerment of women agents in the cultural production of the Arab-Muslim world.
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174436
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