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Journal Article
The Quest for Identity in Sayed Kashua’s Let It Be Morning
2014
Overview
Keren talks about the feelings of many Palestinian Arabs who, after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, found themselves within its boundaries. Having become Israeli citizens, they were always torn between their national identity as Palestinians and their identity as citizens of the sovereign state of Israel. Many national groups live as minorities within sovereign states, but the situation here has been particularly hard because of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and because Israel, while granting its citizens political rights, defines itself as a Jewish state, thus excluding non-Jews from the narrative developed as part of the nation-building process. That narrative views the Jews' settlement of the land of Israel since the late nineteenth century as a return to Zion and a restoration of Jewish independence, while the Palestinian narrative views Zionism as a colonial movement and Israeli independence, achieved after a war in which 700,000 Palestinians became refugees, as a Nakba (catastrophe). Among other things, Keren discusses that discourse in an attempt to highlight a creative attempt by novelist Sayed Kashua to breach its boundaries.
