Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2018

The Palestinian identity and Its Symbolist treatment in Ghassan Kanafani‘s

Kamel Hezam Ali Moqbel

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This paper tries to tackle the most important theme dealt with in Ghassan Kanafani’s novel Men in Sun.  The Palestinian identity is the main issue that occupies the book. It is the subject matter, the motivation and the purpose of writing the novel. This paper highlights the extent of the author’s affinity to the time, setting and characters of the story. The story of Men in the Sun is the story of the whole Palestinian people, not of a person or a few people. It is the story of an entire people suffering humiliation, loss, deprivation and injustice. It is the people deprived of a decent life since the first Nakba in 1948. Kanafani in this work narrates story of three suffering Palestinian men, representing different generations who forcibly left their homeland to the unknown world waiting for a simple hope or a thin dream. It is the story of a vivid and sincere portrayal of the Palestinian asylum, with its accompanying bitterness, humiliation and hunger. All Palestinian generations, under the burden of displacement, suffer from alienation and loss of identity, seeking to find a place in the sun. Thus, this novel gives a profound expression of the Palestinian will to reserve its identity before this action was integrated into a political framework. It provides a picture of the Palestinian identity questions in the preset-back of June 1967. This paper shows the aesthetic dimensions in the story like realistic, romantic and symbolic trends and how the author combines them successfully to enhance his theme of the question of Palestinian identity. It symbolically represents, in its entirety, a critical trial of all the circumstances in which it operates.

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Kamel Hezam Ali Moqbel, The Palestinian identity and Its Symbolist treatment in Ghassan Kanafani's , GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-7, ISSUE-2, FEBRUARY-2018

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