In his escapist novel The Ship, written a few years after the Arab defeat of 1967, the late Palestinian-Iraqi poet, novelist, and critic Jabra Ibrahim Jabra deploys many Arab refugee characters on board his fictional ship Hercules, which sails towards Europe. The centrifugal motion of the ship away from the Arab world expresses polemics of the Arab voyagers against their regimes. It also mirrors the transformation of the Arab world post-1967 war from a site of comfort to a locus of instability. This article views Jabra’s The Ship as a prophecy of the ever-present disturbance of the Arab world since the 1967 defeat and its deterioration.

العنوان

Ahmad Qabaha

الناشر

Your Middle East

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المملكة المتحدة

نوع المنشور

إلكتروني فقط

المجلد

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