And it’s in the narrative of authors like Susan Abulhawa. It’s in the cinema of Suha Arraf, and Cherien Dabis. Its shattered history is the stuff of legend – poetry that seeps sadness at every stanza the weight of loss inhabiting the stoic works of Edward Said and the academics who followed him.īut there’s an emerging space, a new breed of storytelling that is propping up Palestine like a living, breathing human being. You might argue that Palestine’s mythos is well documented. This is particularly true of the Arab world. More importantly, there is room for stories by people of colour that meet somewhere in-between. There is no room for the heroine of an everyday story to be a person of colour. For people of colour, the stories are similarly tinted – downtrodden, marginalised, ancestral tales that comfortably feed notions of otherness. In the west, we’re only starting to acknowledge that there is a singular, ‘white’ story that we see in pop culture. Perhaps more dangerous is an absence of stories altogether. There is danger in thinking that a single story tells the lives of many. Author Susan Abulhawa takes a new approach to Palestinian storytelling.
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