Echoes of silence in Ghassan Kanafani's "Return to Haïfa"
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Palestinian literature, silence, speech, memory, discontinuity
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Silence in literature can be a paradoxical issue that might raise debate. The presence of silence in Kanafani's novel can be considered as an attempt to voice the unsaid, and to write about Nakba (catastrophe). Problematic issues of language and writing are the cornerstone of our research. While the catastrophe cannot be said, Kanafani proves that we can see it. The author successfully depicts the catastrophe with an amazing language of his own through the romance of silenceDownloads
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Radi M. (2011). Echoes of silence in Ghassan Kanafani’s "Return to Haïfa". Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 26, 273-283. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_THEL.2011.v26.17
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