Essays about: "Jenin"

Found 2 essays containing the word Jenin.

1. 1. The Voice of Nature : Ecological Personification in Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name: An Ecolinguistic Analysis

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Zayna Halis; [2023]
   Keywords : Conceptual Metaphor Theory; ecolinguistics; ecological personification; ecosophy; ecological identities; eco-resistance; embodied metaphors;

   Abstract : This study delves into the ways in which the displaced Palestinian characters in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name (2008) connect to their homeland through embodied metaphors, particularly through the personification of their native lands, which will be read with recourse to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). By utilizing ecolinguistics as an analytical lens and applying CMT, this study illuminates how both literary works significantly underscore the urgency and cruciality of the human-nature interconnection and interdependence amid tragedy and dispossession. READ MORE

3. 2. "We're none of us at peace" : Creating resistance through theatre

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Julia Hackman; [2014]
   Keywords : Freedom Theatre; Jenin; Palestine Israel conflict; resistance; nonviolence; theatre; applied drama; identity; narrative; politics; Frihetsteatern; Jenin; Västbanken; teater; identitet; narrativ; politik;

   Abstract : This essay aims to begin to fill a potential gap in previous research when it comes to studying the political content of specific cultural practices, in this case the Freedom Theatre in Jenin. The theatre expressively refers to itself as a political theatre, calling themselves freedom fighters and places itself at the forefront of they call "cultural resistance". READ MORE