مجلة البحوث و الدراسات الإنسانية
Volume 17, Numéro 2, Pages 489-509
2023-12-31
The (im)possibility Of Return In Ghada Karmi's Return: A Palestinian Memoir
Authors : Dib Fatima Zohra .
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore the paramount role of the journey motif in Ghada Karmi’s Return: A Palestinian Memoir (2015). It specifically highlights how the journey taken by Karmi herself from Britain to Palestine leads her to question issues related to her sense of national belonging, identity, and whether return is a truly feasible project. Her journey of return generates feelings of disappointment, alienation, and bitterness. Her expectations are quickly shattered on her visit there, where she feels the wide and the unbridgeable gap between her memory of a remote and distant past and the encountered reality. The Israeli’s erasure of the Palestinian landscape and tribulations against Palestinians make it difficult for Karmi to identify with the current Palestine. Karmi goes through different experiences that help in widening her horizons and instigating in her a deep sense of awareness of the Palestinians’ legitimate right of return to reclaim their homeland. Overall, the paper shows how investigating the crucial role of return as a subversive strategy challenges Israeli narratives that aim at denying the Palestinians’ right of return.
Keywords
Ghada Karmi ; Identity ; Return ; Memory ; Palestine
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