The locket becomes a bullet: Nationalising the feminine in Palestinian literature

Authors

Dima Tahboub

Abstract

Palestinian Literature as War literature: a Sociopolitical Reality Inspiring Fiction Palestinian literature can be studied as a subgenre of war literature. War literature in this respect is categorised as any literary production, whose six pillars of writing, including characters, setting in time and place, plot, theme, climax and ending, directly or remotely, depict the context of war. War is defined as a state of conflict, fighting, or animosity, large- or small- scale between people, states or nations. War literature is set apart from other literary categories, as its very presence is governed by a state of war, actual or fictional, temporary or permanent, past or present, primitive or modern, which affects the configuration of the war story and its themes.

Recommended Citation

Tahboub, Dima, The locket becomes a bullet: Nationalising the feminine in Palestinian literature, Kunapipi, 31(1), 2009.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol31/iss1/13