This article explores border crossing and the Palestinian city as a literary metropolis—two major themes in the works of emerging Palestinian novelists in Israel. It looks at the “re-Palestinization” of urban space by writers who belong to a post-Oslo generation of Palestinian intellectuals that left villages and small towns in Israel to go and study, work, and live in the city. What distinguishes the literature of this generation is its negotiation of border crossing in a fragmented geography and its engagement with the city as a space of paradoxical encounter between a national imaginary and a settler-colonial reality. Based on a critical reading of their works, the article argues that Adania Shibli and Ibtisam Azem challenge colonial border discourse, exposing the ongoing Zionist erasure of the Palestinian city and creating a new topography for Palestinian literature. The article also traces the role of these writers in the “twinning” of Haifa and Ramallah starting in the late 1990s, and it examines how this literary and cultural “sisterhood” informs spatial resistance.

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从海法到拉马拉（和返回）：新/旧巴勒斯坦文学地形

本文探讨了过境点和作为文学大都市的巴勒斯坦城市——以色列新兴巴勒斯坦小说家作品中的两个主要主题。它着眼于作家对城市空间的“重新巴勒斯坦化”，他们属于后奥斯陆时代的巴勒斯坦知识分子，他们离开了以色列的村庄和小镇，前往城市学习、工作和生活。这一代文学的与众不同之处在于它在支离破碎的地理环境中对边境进行谈判，以及将城市作为民族想象与定居者-殖民现实之间矛盾相遇的空间。基于对他们作品的批判性阅读，文章认为 Adania Shibli 和 Ibtisam Azem 挑战了殖民边界话语，揭露犹太复国主义对巴勒斯坦城市的持续抹杀，并为巴勒斯坦文学创造了新的地形。文章还追溯了这些作家在 1990 年代后期开始的海法和拉马拉“结对”中的作用，并探讨了这种文学和文化“姐妹情谊”如何影响空间抵抗。