‘The orange was dried up and shriveled’: Oranges and the Crisis of Nationalism in Ghassan Kanafani and Smilansky Yizhar
نوع المنشور
بحث أصيل
المؤلفون

The year is 1948. Palestinians, the majority of whom lived in or near the coastal areas extending from Acre to the northern part of Gaza, were dispossessed of their land. The loss of coastal areas, characterised by the abundance of orange-groves and the citrus industry, is represented in Palestinian and Israeli post-nakba literature. Whilst Kanafani and Yizhar use the orange symbol to link between land, memory, belonging and the necessity of Palestinian/Jewish return, I offer a quintessential comparison between both writers who also employ this symbol to problematise the presence of Arab nationalism and to build an image of Zionism-in-crisis.

المجلة
العنوان
National Identities
الناشر
Taylor and Francis
بلد الناشر
المملكة المتحدة
Indexing
Scopus
معامل التأثير
None
نوع المنشور
Both (Printed and Online)
المجلد
21
السنة
2017
الصفحات
1-16