Summary
Scholar cited in Chapter 3 of Rhetorics of Belonging for the periodization of Palestinian identity debates: exile paradigms dominant before Oslo, juridical identity and statehood after it (Rhetorics of Belonging, PDF p.88).
Details
- “[B]efore Oslo the images of Palestinian dismemberment and the paradigms of exile dominated the debate over Palestinian identity […] The politics and poetics of exile became so dominant in this formative period that the conditions, aspirations, and outlook of those Palestinians who remained in Palestine (almost half the total number of Palestinians) were virtually forgotten.” (1999, 3–4, quoted PDF p.88).
- Bernard dates I Saw Ramallah to the early years of the post-Oslo period, when, she writes, the focus of the debate shifted to the “juridical aspects of [Palestinian] identity” and “the politics of statehood” (Tamari, 1999, 3, quoted PDF p.88).
Related pages
Rhetorics of Belonging, Mourid Barghouti, Edward Said, Exile