The Association between Individuality and National-Political Issues in the Literary Works of Contemporary Palestinian Female Writers
Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the connection between female individuality and national-political issues in contemporary Palestinian women’s writing. By analyzing a representative set of works written since 1987 by selected popular Palestinian female writers in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, and the United States, this study seeks to discern the various thematic through which the writers connect women’s personal (including women’s private experiences and patriarchal social relationships), and national-political issues (including those that relate to home and exile, nation and nationality, and collective identity). This study investigates how Palestinian female writers in different geographic and cultural locations connect female individuality with nationality not to establish the national Palestinian identity; rather, they combine the two to establish their female identity.