Abstract
Modern Palestinian literature was born diasporic. Produced from different positions in the Palestinian diaspora, multilingual Palestinian literature maps itself onto Palestinianess as a state of mind. In dialogue with affect theory, the dissertation supplements this understanding of Palestinianness with an account of mood in post-Oslo Palestinian literature. Specifically, I analyze shame in Ayman Sikseck’s Hebrew novel Tishrin (2016) and melancholia in Adania Shibli’s Arabic novel Minor Detail (2020 [2017]). By “reading the mood,” this dissertation examines how iltizam (commitment) in Palestinian literature registers the social and political ruptures that the collapse of the Oslo accords brought upon the Palestinian experience.
Committee Chair
Anca Parvulescu
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Author's Department
Comparative Literature
Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
5-6-2024
Language
English (en)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7936/q9ze-nn20
Recommended Citation
Qashou, Sayed, "Reading Mood in the Post-Oslo Palestinian Novel: Shame, Melancholy, Hope" (2024). Arts & Sciences Theses and Dissertations. 3054.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/q9ze-nn20