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Journal Article
Geopolitics of Home in Ghada Karmi's in Search of Fatima
2025
Overview
This paper tackles the changed perception of Home due to geopolitical changes. It is a study of Ghada Karmi's two English memoirs In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story and Return: A Palestinian Memoir. Analysed through settler-colonial studies lens, this paper analyses how far Goldberg's racial palestinianisation practices of ethnoracial eviction, culling and purging have distorted the Palestinian ubiquitous experiences across different spatialities and temporalities. This paper is divided into two parts: the first discussing the collective Palestinian experience in the Occupied Palestinian territory and the second discussing Karmi's personal experience back Home, in exile and back Home again after the Zionist settler-colonial project has been consummated. The first explores how far racial palestinianisation practices amount to prison practices precisely Jeremy Bentham's panopticon and the American Pelican Bay prison turning the Palestinians experience to one defined by precarity and confinement. The second one delves into Karmi's personal experience of uprootedness, and her rite of passage defined by precarity, loss of H/home, and perplexity of her Palestinian identity. Home has changed from a stable space where one can return to and enjoy its warmth and security to a precarious spatiality defined by danger and confinement.
Publisher
جامعة عين شمس - مركز بحوث الشرق الأوسط
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