Summary
Palestinian author of Strangers in the House (2002) and of West Bank landscape writing, used by Anna Bernard as a comparison point for both Said’s and Barghouti’s memoirs (Rhetorics of Belonging, PDF p.53, p.84).
Details
- Bernard contrasts Said’s childhood with Shehadeh’s and Ghada Karmi’s: unlike Said, their parents had to flee their home in 1948 — Shehadeh’s in Strangers in the House (2002) (PDF p.53).
- In Bernard’s contrast, where Mourid Barghouti opposes the pastoral imaginary to the material benefits of urban development, Shehadeh tends to foreground the West Bank’s environmental degradation (2007) (PDF p.84).