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Remembering home: Palestine from a distance

This paper examines the memories of a woman who was displaced and dispossessed of her home. Writing in retrospect of her childhood in Palestine, Ibtisam Barakat, in her memoir Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, depicts with humor and resilience the love, attachment, struggle, and fear of the...

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Main Authors: Noraini Md. Yusof,, Ruzy Suliza Hashim,, Raihanah, M.M
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Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012
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spelling my-ukm.journal.53762016-12-14T06:38:17Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5376/ Remembering home: Palestine from a distance Noraini Md. Yusof, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah, M.M This paper examines the memories of a woman who was displaced and dispossessed of her home. Writing in retrospect of her childhood in Palestine, Ibtisam Barakat, in her memoir Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, depicts with humor and resilience the love, attachment, struggle, and fear of the motherland she has left behind and of the new homeland she now inhabits. Between forgetting and remembering, Barakat's epistaloric narrative shows the conflict of a diasporic writer reconciling her past and her present. By investigating her notions of home, we draw conclusions on the memories and political concerns she evokes and how these recollections form her identity as a Muslim who is conscious of her roots. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5376/1/18_2_10_norainiyusof.pdf Noraini Md. Yusof, and Ruzy Suliza Hashim, and Raihanah, M.M (2012) Remembering home: Palestine from a distance. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 18 (2). pp. 95-103. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description This paper examines the memories of a woman who was displaced and dispossessed of her home. Writing in retrospect of her childhood in Palestine, Ibtisam Barakat, in her memoir Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, depicts with humor and resilience the love, attachment, struggle, and fear of the motherland she has left behind and of the new homeland she now inhabits. Between forgetting and remembering, Barakat's epistaloric narrative shows the conflict of a diasporic writer reconciling her past and her present. By investigating her notions of home, we draw conclusions on the memories and political concerns she evokes and how these recollections form her identity as a Muslim who is conscious of her roots.
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author Noraini Md. Yusof,
Ruzy Suliza Hashim,
Raihanah, M.M
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Ruzy Suliza Hashim,
Raihanah, M.M
Remembering home: Palestine from a distance
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Ruzy Suliza Hashim,
Raihanah, M.M
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title Remembering home: Palestine from a distance
title_short Remembering home: Palestine from a distance
title_full Remembering home: Palestine from a distance
title_fullStr Remembering home: Palestine from a distance
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title_sort remembering home: palestine from a distance
publisher Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate 2012
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