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Intimate others: Representations of the Arabs in the Palestinian imaginary
[Thesis]
Ahmad Diab
Shohat, Ella; Antoon, Sinan
New York University
2016
290
Committee members: Khoury, Elias; Rius-Pinies, Monica; Tawil-Souri, Helga
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-52091-9
Ph.D.
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
New York University
2016
This dissertation traces the shifts in the representations of the Arabs in Palestinian literary and visual culture since the beginning of the twentieth century until the present moment. Focusing on select texts from different genres and periods, this study argues that the psychological and political effects of living against the threat of erasure contribute to a discourse of heterogeneous visions for identity and alterity that congeal around the relationship with the Arabs. This study demonstrates that Palestinian writers and artists, both before and after al-Nakba (the Cataclysm) of 1948, responded to the exigencies of their political conditions by negotiating a multiplicity of attitudes towards the Arabs in works that represented non-Palestinian Arabs as at once intimate and other. In the pre-Nakba poetry of 'Ibrāhīm Tūqān (1905-1941), 'Abd al-Rahīm Mahmūd (1913-1948) and Wadī' al-Bustānī (1886-1954), premonitions of an approaching disaster prefigure the depictions of the Arabs as a reluctant savior. The immediate post-Nakba silence was both traumatic and generative for the perception of self and other in Palestinian prose fiction. Close readings of Ghassān Kanafānī's (1936-1972) Rijāl fi al-Shams [Men in the Sun], and Jabra 'Ibrāhīm Jabrā's (1919-1994) Al-Safīna [The Ship], show how these works contribute to a largely introverted Palestinian gaze whereby Arab spaces and figures emerge as primarily exilic. For post-Nakba poetry, I trace the genealogy of the Arabs in the works of the Palestinian poet Mahmūd Darwīsh (1941-2008). The study investigates the role of allegorical poetry in national self-fashioning and the ways that informs the attitudes and depictions of the Arabs. The dissertation also focuses on the works of the filmmaker Elia Suleiman (b.1960), and the political cartoonists Nājī al-'Alī (1938-1987) and Hānī 'Abbās (b. 1977) in its review of visual representations of non-Palestinian Arabs. In Suleiman's The Time That Remains, the contrapuntal relationship between the rich Arabic music in the soundtrack and the multi-layered visual treatment of the Arab underscores conflicting attitudes that negotiate the (im)possibility of a dismissal of Arabs in Palestinian narratives. The works of Al-'Ali and 'Abbās, following their displacement from Beirut and Damascus respectively, gesture towards an opening for a more expansive Palestinian gaze. They contribute to a novel portrayal of the common Arab man and woman (both Palestinian and non-Palestinian) united in their struggle against the Israeli occupation and authoritarian Arab regimes. Ultimately, the Nakba-induced self-involvement of the Palestinian literary and artistic gaze afforded sparse yet dynamic portrayals of the Arabs that are contingent upon the current historical circumstance of the writers and artists studied and the positions from which their works were produced.
Middle Eastern literature; Film studies; Arabs; Poetry; Arabic language; Cultural identity; Silence; Novels; Negotiation; Politics; Eye movements; Occupations; Fiction; Historical text analysis; Middle Eastern studies; Prose; Attitudes; Otherness
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Arabic fiction;Culture and representation;Exile in literature;Film studies;Middle eastern cinema;Palestinian literature
Schum, Timothy
Shohat, Ella; Antoon, Sinan
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
New York University
1769837756; 10025615
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