This course focuses on the question of Palestinian identity in Israel since 1948, through an inter-textual reading of literature. The course offers a critical discussion and deals with a selected corpus, including works by Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, Kamal Salameh, Anton Shammas and others. The course also addresses theoretical questions on identity and literature in general, as well as the Palestinian-Israeli history and politics since 1948. We will present the issue of question of the ‘evolution’ and multiplicity of Palestinian identities, therefore the course utilises the literary texts as fertile ground to raise important historical, cultural, social and political questions.

The course does not require proficiency in Arabic.