By Anna Ball
ISBN-10: 041588862X
ISBN-13: 9780415888622
Palestinian Literature and picture in Postcolonial Feminist standpoint is the 1st sustained research of gender-consciousness within the Palestinian artistic mind's eye. Drawing on ideas from postcolonial feminist thought, Ball analyses a variety of literary and filmic works through significant artistic practitioners together with Michel Khleifi , Liana Badr, Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman, Mona Hatoum and Suheir Hammad, and divulges a hitherto unrecognized trajectory in gender-consciousness less than improvement within the Palestinian mind's eye from the beginning of the 20 th century. The e-book explores how those works resonate with questions of strength, identification, kingdom, resistance, and self-representation within the Palestinian mind's eye extra greatly, and asks how those gender-conscious narratives rework our knowing of Palestine's fight for postcoloniality. operating on the cusp of postcolonial, feminist and cultural enquiry, Ball seeks to open up important new instructions within the interdisciplinary examine of Palestine.
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Postcolonial feminist scholarship has traced the gendered nature of national narratives even further, however, by suggesting that feminisation is inherent in the very ‘birth’ of nationhood as a concept. 15 This ‘image of communion’, to use Anderson’s phrase, fi nds an echo in the Arabic term al-watan al-umm: the ‘motherland’ or ‘homeland’, a trope that resonates across many cultures and not only describes the place of one’s birth or origins but also associates that territory with the fertile, nurturing and domestic qualities of traditional femininity.
Equally, Raeda is presented as a figure torn between past and present, political and personal concerns. While the close connection between woman and land is therefore placed within a contemporary context in this fi lm, it nevertheless upholds her primarily symbolic status as a figure of national desire. While women’s symbolic connection to the land is often mobilised by male authors in order to affi rm their own ancestral claims, a particularly interesting inflection of this discourse occurs in Laila ‘Allush’s poem, ‘The Path of Affection’.
40 Perversely, however, the ‘lamentably alien’ qualities of the Orient also rendered it a site of voyeuristic fascination, an imaginative ground for working through the repressed desires and fears within the Western unconscious. Shohat suggests that this simultaneous sense of repulsion and desire, disdain and fascination, typically fi nds expression in Orientalist texts through implicitly sexualised representations of the landscape as a site of ‘irrational primitivism’ and ‘uncontrolled instincts’ in which the ‘exposed, barren land and blazing sands metaphorize the exposed, unrepressed “hot” passion and uncensored emotions of the Orient .
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