ABSTRACT

Palestinian American writer Susan Abulhawa’s novels Mornings in Jenin (2010) and The Blue Between Sky and Water (2015) capture the experience of the Palestinian community following Israeli occupation and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. This article explores the ways in which Abulhawa shows the dismantling of the national sovereignty of Palestine as having thrown the citizenry of the Palestinian Arabs into a state of disarray. Drawing on theories of nation, nationalism, and nostalgia, it discusses how Abulhawa’s protagonists have recourse to cultural memories of the homeland to conceptualize and rebuild their disrupted subjectivities. Analysing the important role of nostalgia in perpetuating love of a lost territory, it argues that, for Abulhawa, the yearning to return is fundamental to the social connectedness and nationalist struggles of the dislocated Palestinian Arab community.

摘要

巴勒斯坦美国作家苏珊·阿布拉哈瓦（Susan Abulhawa）的小说《杰宁的早晨》（2010）和《天与水之间的蓝色》（2015）总结了以色列占领和将巴勒斯坦人驱逐出家园后巴勒斯坦社区的经历。本文探讨了阿布哈瓦以何种方式表明破坏了巴勒斯坦的国家主权，因为这使巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的国籍陷入混乱。它利用民族，民族主义和怀旧的理论，讨论了阿布哈瓦的主角们如何利用祖国的文化记忆来概念化和重建他们被破坏的主观性。分析怀旧情绪对永久失去领土的永久性的重要作用，它认为，对于阿布哈瓦而言，渴望返回的愿望对于流离失所的巴勒斯坦阿拉伯社区的社会联系和民族主义斗争至关重要。