‘The orange was dried up and shriveled’: Oranges and the Crisis of Nationalism in Ghassan Kanafani and Smilansky Yizhar
- Publication Type
- Original research
- Authors
The year is 1948. Palestinians, the majority of whom lived in or near the coastal areas extending from Acre to the northern part of Gaza, were dispossessed of their land. The loss of coastal areas, characterised by the abundance of orange-groves and the citrus industry, is represented in Palestinian and Israeli post-nakba literature. Whilst Kanafani and Yizhar use the orange symbol to link between land, memory, belonging and the necessity of Palestinian/Jewish return, I offer a quintessential comparison between both writers who also employ this symbol to problematise the presence of Arab nationalism and to build an image of Zionism-in-crisis.
Journal
- Title
- National Identities
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Publisher Country
- United Kingdom
- Indexing
- Scopus
- Impact Factor
- None
- Publication Type
- Both (Printed and Online)
- Volume
- 21
- Year
- 2017
- Pages
- 1-16