This chapter explores the role of memory in recreating the place the contemporary Palestinian memoirist Ghada Karmi was expelled from by providing a close analysis of her work Return: A Palestinian Memoir (2015). I build on theorizations of exile and memory, alongside Mikhail Bakhtin’s theoretical concept of the chronotope, wherein place is always located in time (Bakhtin, 1981, 84-85), to assess how this recreates the value of memories of a particular place. The chapter suggests that Karmi’s memories of Palestine function as the main component of her incoherent and transient national experience, and it explores the potential for resistant acts contained within her narrative of personal memory.

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أحمد قبها

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LUP

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United Kingdom

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Prtinted only

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