THE MEMORY OF THE PLACE IN MAHMOUD SHUKAIR’S AL-QUDS WAHDEHÂ HUNÂK

Mahmoud Shukair, who is one of the most significant alive names of Palestinian literature, was born in Jabal al-Mukaber, now a district in Jerusalem, in 1941. Shukair, who was deported by Israel in 1975, returned to Jerusalem as a result of Oslo I Accord signed in 1993 after having lived away from h...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:3117b03f5bde47f6a4522e81dfb9b4922021-11-24T09:20:32ZTHE MEMORY OF THE PLACE IN MAHMOUD SHUKAIR’S AL-QUDS WAHDEHÂ HUNÂK2148-416310.29228/JASSS.49442https://doaj.org/article/3117b03f5bde47f6a4522e81dfb9b4922021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jasstudies.com/index.jsp?mod=tammetin&makaleadi=e6ba626e-28e9-4245-8d94-7698e8aedee0.pdf&key=49442https://doaj.org/toc/2148-4163Mahmoud Shukair, who is one of the most significant alive names of Palestinian literature, was born in Jabal al-Mukaber, now a district in Jerusalem, in 1941. Shukair, who was deported by Israel in 1975, returned to Jerusalem as a result of Oslo I Accord signed in 1993 after having lived away from his homeland for eighteen years. Shukair whose writing career started with short stories, deals with the problems of people living in Palestinian countryside before the Israeli occupation in 1967, poverty, ignorance, the conflict between bourgeois people in cities and villagers in his first stories written in a realistic and classical style. He also begins to tell the problems and struggle of his people under the occupation after 1967. Drifting away classical narration methods, he turns to new genres in time. In addition to short stories and short short stories, he has works in different styles such as novel, autobiography, diary, memory, scenario, drama. He is also one of the most prominent writers of children and youth’s literature in Palestine. Mahmoud Shukair’s <em>al-Quds Wahdehâ Hunâk (Jerusalem Stands Alone)</em> that published in 2020, consists of one hundred and fifty-five sequential short short stories. The fact that the stories are in connection leads some critics to acknowledge the work as a novel. The writer addresses the conditions of the Palestinian living under Israel’s occupation in Jerusalem in a postmodern frame by using techniques like metafiction, intertextuality, irony, and by blending present and history, reality and imagination. This study focuses on historical and contemporary representations of Jerusalem in Shukair’s <em>al-Quds Wahdehâ Hunâk,</em> and aims to analyze the meaning and the significance of Jerusalem for Shukair and for Palestinians.Fatıma Betül ÜYÜMEZFırat Universityarticlejerusalempalestinemahmud shukairshort short storyspaceSocial SciencesHSocial sciences (General)H1-99DEENFRTRJournal of Academic Social Science Studies , Vol 14, Iss 85, Pp 151-162 (2021)
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THE MEMORY OF THE PLACE IN MAHMOUD SHUKAIR’S AL-QUDS WAHDEHÂ HUNÂK
description Mahmoud Shukair, who is one of the most significant alive names of Palestinian literature, was born in Jabal al-Mukaber, now a district in Jerusalem, in 1941. Shukair, who was deported by Israel in 1975, returned to Jerusalem as a result of Oslo I Accord signed in 1993 after having lived away from his homeland for eighteen years. Shukair whose writing career started with short stories, deals with the problems of people living in Palestinian countryside before the Israeli occupation in 1967, poverty, ignorance, the conflict between bourgeois people in cities and villagers in his first stories written in a realistic and classical style. He also begins to tell the problems and struggle of his people under the occupation after 1967. Drifting away classical narration methods, he turns to new genres in time. In addition to short stories and short short stories, he has works in different styles such as novel, autobiography, diary, memory, scenario, drama. He is also one of the most prominent writers of children and youth’s literature in Palestine. Mahmoud Shukair’s <em>al-Quds Wahdehâ Hunâk (Jerusalem Stands Alone)</em> that published in 2020, consists of one hundred and fifty-five sequential short short stories. The fact that the stories are in connection leads some critics to acknowledge the work as a novel. The writer addresses the conditions of the Palestinian living under Israel’s occupation in Jerusalem in a postmodern frame by using techniques like metafiction, intertextuality, irony, and by blending present and history, reality and imagination. This study focuses on historical and contemporary representations of Jerusalem in Shukair’s <em>al-Quds Wahdehâ Hunâk,</em> and aims to analyze the meaning and the significance of Jerusalem for Shukair and for Palestinians.
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title THE MEMORY OF THE PLACE IN MAHMOUD SHUKAIR’S AL-QUDS WAHDEHÂ HUNÂK
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