Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”
Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9002583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H A M Nashef (0000-0002-3547-0331, American University of Sharjah, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 394-411 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021989416670203 |
| OpenAlex | W2537026163 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
In his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced [...] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a people’” (Abd Al-Shafi, 1992: 133). Negation coupled with the trauma of the loss of territory has augmented the Palestinian silence. In this article, I look at Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief (2010) and In the Presence of Absence (2011), drawing on Edward W. Said’s After the Last Sky (1999), in which the authors recount the untold story of their marginalized people to give voice to the silenced through accounts of a lived and observed experience
Aesthetics · Art · Grief · Literature · Mythology · Negation · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Silence · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Psychology
Culture and Resistance
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination
The Rhetoric of Violence
The Politics of Denial
"In the Presence of Absence"
The Palestine Nakba
The De-Arabization of West Jerusalem 1947-50
T He F All of a G Alilean v Illage During the 1948 P Alestine W Ar
The invention of the Jewish people
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |