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This chapter deals with three narratives of Palestine, belonging to the realm of the displaced: Lisa Suhair Majaj’s Geographies of Light, Suheir Hammad’s breaking poems and Annemarie Jacir’s film Salt of This Sea. The focus of this chapter, however, is the relationship between the people and the landscape from which they have been displaced, especially their relationship to both natural and manmade barriers, highlighting the role of affect in their reconstruction of narrative space.
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For more on this point and further discussion of this scene, see my chapter on “Seeking Home: Vignettes of Homes and Homing” in The Case for Reduction.
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See my chapter on “Seeking Home: Vignettes of Homes and Homing” in The Case for Reduction for more on this scene and the notion of home and homing in Salt of this Sea.
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ElHalawani, A. (2023). (Re)Visiting Place: Waters and Barriers in Lisa Suhair Majaj’s Geographies of Light, Suheir Hammad’s breaking poems and Annemarie Jacir’s Film Salt of this Sea. In: Granja do Amaral, D., Obute, A.C. (eds) Mediascapes of Ruined Geographies in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31590-9_3
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