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- Title
Fadia Faqir Writes Back: Nisanit as a Resistance Novel.
- Authors
Srinivasan, Sowmya
- Abstract
This paper justifies resistance in the face of power by posing colonialism as the pivotal beginning point of establishment of power, its political, social, and economic operations and ideologies, and the aggressive territorial encroachments followed by enforcement of Western laws. The objective of the paper is to initiate an understanding of the relationship between power and resistance in Faqir's (1987) novel Nisanit that captures Palestine in its crucial hours of political and social crises. Resistance, in the novel, depends on the magnitude of empowerment that may be destructive or transformative. While the empowered rebellious characters, Saqi and Shadeed, defeat power by destroying themselves, transformative resistor, Eman breaks the Oriental image of an Arab stereotype. The anticolonial movements, the refugee camps, and the Fedayeen groups stand uniquely empowered in the novel to resist dominance.
- Subjects
NISANIT (Book); FAQIR, Fadia; RESISTANCE (Philosophy) in literature; IMPERIALISM in literature; POWER (Philosophy); POWER (Social sciences) in literature; ANTI-imperialist movements in literature; STEREOTYPES
- Publication
IUP Journal of English Studies, 2017, Vol 12, Issue 3, p62
- ISSN
0973-3728
- Publication type
Article