The Dialectics of ‘Home’ in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun
Journal: GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies
Year: 2021

Since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, the definition of home in diasporic Palestinian literature has become a central issue among literary scholars. However, this concept of home has been addressed mainly from a mono-dimensional perspective, that is, either the concrete attachment or the abstract affiliation of home. Based on the significance of the interplay of both dimensions and the lack of focus on the duality of home in previous studies of Palestinian literature, this paper explores the abst