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Venturing into a vanishing space: the chronotope in representing Palestinian postcoloniality
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Venturing into a vanishing space: the chronotope in representing Palestinian postcoloniality

Samar H. AlJahdali
Journal of postcolonial writing, Vol.50(2), pp.216-229
04/03/2014

Abstract

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This article responds to the relative neglect of Palestinian literature in postcolonial studies by exploring the possibility of Bakhtin's chronotope as a useful tool in representing Palestinian postcoloniality. The chronotopes of walking and retuning in Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks (2008) and Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin (2011) respectively sketch ways of challenging settler colonialism and reconstructing Palestinian history and geography.

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