ABSTRACT

This study examines three Palestinian works, Hanna Ibrahim’s short story “Infiltrators,” (1954), Mahmoud Shukair’s short story “Mordechai’s Moustache and His Wife’s Cat” (2004) and Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance (2014). Remarkably, each features a Jewish Israeli as a central character in the story; more intriguing, in each, the story is mediated through the perspective of that character – focalized by him or her. I address the significances generated by using focalization as a rhetorical strategy, particularly fraught because the perspective is that of a character from the other side of a national conflict. My analyses address whether the narrator reinforces the focalizer’s perceptions or undermines them, and how the technique of focalization unsettles established perceptions and offers critique of the system. I work through how conveying a story through the perception of a character on the opposite side of the conflict foregrounds and complicates structures of representation and power dynamics.

摘要

这项研究考察了三部巴勒斯坦作品，包括汉娜·易卜拉欣的短篇小说“渗透者”（1954年），马哈茂德·舒卡伊的短篇小说“莫德凯的胡子和他的妻子的猫”（2004年）以及伊比迪森·阿齐姆的《失踪之书》。（2014）。值得注意的是，每个故事都以犹太以色列人为中心人物。在每个故事中，更有趣的是通过人物角色的视角进行调解-由他或她集中。我讲到将聚焦作为一种修辞策略所产生的意义，尤其是充满恐惧，因为这种观点是民族冲突另一面人物的观点。我的分析分析了叙述者是增强还是削弱了聚焦者的感知，以及聚焦技术如何使既定感知动摇，并对系统提出了批评。我研究如何通过在冲突前景另一侧的角色感知来传达故事，并使表示和权力动态的结构复杂化。