فصلنامه «پژواک زنان در تاریخ »
Shokooh Hosseini
Ph.D. in Persian-Arabic Comparative Literature
Member of the scientific faculty of the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies
Email: shokooh_iran@yahoo.com
Abstract
The occupation of Palestine is one of the elements of identity construction in this country. The consolidation of normal problems of life with a comprehensive problem for men and women of a nation has given multi-layered content to the narratives of Palestinian novelists or Arab novelists who wrote about Palestine. Women’s narratives of this land, in addition to being an attempt to keep the history of Palestinian struggles alive and create images of the reality of colonization and occupation of this land, can also challenge its social structure in terms of gender and provide the interested people with deeper layers to get familiar with this fact. Sahar Khalifa, one of the most famous authors in the Palestinian novel, was forced to leave her country when she was a child. Abbad al-Shams (The Sunflower) (1980), the third novel of this author, shows the problems of the Palestinian refugees in their homeland. In this article, with a review of this novel, we have addressed one of the serious female voices in Palestinian literature. Self and other, identity, different social roles and the relationship between woman and land are some of the issues that have been investigated in this novel
Keywords: Key words: Arabic novel, Palestinian novel, Sahar Khalifa, Abbad al-shams
