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Giving Voice to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature

Giving Voice to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature

Parmenter, Barbara McKean

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Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 029276555X
ISBN13: 9780292765559
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Sep 1 1994
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.45 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

A struggle between two memories is how Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish describes the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Within this struggle, the meanings of land and home have been challenged and questioned, so that even heaps of stones become points of contention. Are they proof of ancient Hebrew settlement, or rubble from a bulldozed Palestinian village? The memory of these stones, and of the land itself, is nurtured and maintained in Palestinian writing and other modes of expression, which are used to confront and counter Israeli images and rhetoric. This struggle provides a rich vein of thought about the nature of human experience of place and the political uses to which these experiences are put.

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