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‘Can’t You Hear the Shooting?’ - Death and Violence in Palestinian-American Literature on the Middle East Conflict

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Publication: Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia, 9, p. 253
p-ISSN:1582-9960
Publisher:Universitatea Petru Maior
Place:Târgu Mureș
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Abstract:
  • Approaching the problem of continuous violence in the Middle East Conflict through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s canonical essay “On Violence,” the author analyzes a poem by the Palestinian-American author Naomi Shihab Nye and a Hip Hop song by the Arab-Israeli group The N.O.M.A.D.S. by putting them in conversation with each other. Whereas both texts center around the themes of death and violence as experienced in a conflict zone, they take on very different perspectives. Nye’s poem “For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh, is written from a diasporic vantage point and explores the dialectics of the Other’s inhumanity versus one’s own assumed humanity through commemorating the death of a Palestinian girl. “Moot,” a song by The N.O.M.A.D.S., on the other hand, deliberately blurs the boundaries between victim and perpetrator by fusing these categories in the figure of an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian suicide bomber thereby asking us to complicate our understanding of the conflict.
  • Abordând problema violenţei continue în conflictul din Orientul Mijlociu din perspectiva eseului canonic al lui Hannah Arendt, ’On Violence’, autorul analizează un poem al autoarei palestinian-americane Naomi Shihab Nye şi o melodie hip-hop a grupului arab-israelit The N.O.M.A.D.S., punându-i la discuţii unul cu celălalt. În timp ce ambele texte se centrează în jurul temei morţii şi violenţei experimentate într-o zonă de conflict, perspectivele sunt diferite. Poemul lui Nye ’For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh’ este scris din punctul de vedere al diasporei şi explorează dialectica lipsei de omenie a celuilalt versus propria umanitate asumată prin comemorarea morţii unei fete palestiniene. ’Moot ’, o melodie a grupului The N.O.M.A.D.S., pe de altă parte, estompează graniţele dintre victimă şi agresor, în mod deliberat, unind aceste categorii în figura unui soldat israelian şi a unui bombardier sinucigaş palestinian, prin aceasta cerându-ne să facem mai complicată înţelegerea conflictului.
Key words:
  • conflict, violence, poetry, Middle East, victim, perpetrator
  • conflict, violenţă, poezie, Orientul Mijlociu, victimă, agresor
Language: English
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