Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Palestine and the Palestinians in the Short Stories of Samira 'Azzām

Palestine and the Palestinians in the Short Stories of Samira 'Azzām PALESTINE AND THE PALESTINIANS IN THE SHORT STORIES OF SAMIRA 'AZZ � M The dismemberment of Palestine in 1948 and the creation of Israel in the same year had a cataclysmic effect on the Palestinian people in all aspects of their life, but, above all in the political, social and economic spheres. Arabic literature, in all its forms and genres, responded to this situation, offering an expression of the concerns and mood of the Arab people in this period in their modern history. Initially it was poetry which took up the challenge. But other genres soon followed suit, offering a more extensive portrayal of the event of 1948 universally called by the Arabs the nakba (catastrophe). In the fields of the novel and drama, the names of Najati Sidqi and Muhammad ?Ali Bakathir readily suggest themselves, while the names of Saif al-Din al-Irani and Samira `Azzam come to the fore in the field of the short story. The main aim of this paper is to examine the articulation of the nakba and its effect on the Palestinian people in the short stories of Samira Samira 'Azzdm's literary output spans the period between 1948 and 1967. During this period http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Arabic Literature Brill

Palestine and the Palestinians in the Short Stories of Samira 'Azzām

Journal of Arabic Literature , Volume 22 (2): 154 – Jan 1, 1991

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/palestine-and-the-palestinians-in-the-short-stories-of-samira-azz-m-TDDZKXjfM4

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0085-2376
eISSN
1570-064X
DOI
10.1163/157006491X00142
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

PALESTINE AND THE PALESTINIANS IN THE SHORT STORIES OF SAMIRA 'AZZ � M The dismemberment of Palestine in 1948 and the creation of Israel in the same year had a cataclysmic effect on the Palestinian people in all aspects of their life, but, above all in the political, social and economic spheres. Arabic literature, in all its forms and genres, responded to this situation, offering an expression of the concerns and mood of the Arab people in this period in their modern history. Initially it was poetry which took up the challenge. But other genres soon followed suit, offering a more extensive portrayal of the event of 1948 universally called by the Arabs the nakba (catastrophe). In the fields of the novel and drama, the names of Najati Sidqi and Muhammad ?Ali Bakathir readily suggest themselves, while the names of Saif al-Din al-Irani and Samira `Azzam come to the fore in the field of the short story. The main aim of this paper is to examine the articulation of the nakba and its effect on the Palestinian people in the short stories of Samira Samira 'Azzdm's literary output spans the period between 1948 and 1967. During this period

Journal

Journal of Arabic LiteratureBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1991

There are no references for this article.