THE EFFECT OF THE POSTCOLONIAL ON PALESTINIAN LITERATURE
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Literature, Palestinian Literature, Ghassan Kanafani and Sahar KhalifehAbstract
The study presents a theoretical and practical framework for the effect of the postcolonial on Palestinian literature. This study is pertinent to the study of the dynamics of colonialism and colonial resistance. Resistance is the key component in postcolonial literature, which transforms that literature into a weapon in the service of decolonization, one which counters colonial enculturation and externalizes the native struggle, a struggle which is both cultural as well as political. Postcolonial texts deal with the effects of colonization. Thus, this study highlights the effect of the postcolonial on the two novels by Palestinian writers, Ghassan Kanafani and Sahar Khalifeh, as part of the Palestinian literature.
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