“The Question of Palestine”: Power and Resistance in Fadia Faqir’s Nisanit

Orouq, Ayham Abu (2024) “The Question of Palestine”: Power and Resistance in Fadia Faqir’s Nisanit. EGER JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 24. pp. 43-70. ISSN 1786-5638 (print); 2060-9159 (online)

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Abstract

This study examines aspects of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict as depicted in Fadia Faqir’s Nisanit. It explores both the methods of subjugation employed by the Israeli occupier and the forms of resistance undertaken by the Palestinian occupied. Drawing upon political perspectives that classify this encounter as a neo-colonial paradigm, alongside postcolonial critical views, the textual analysis of Faqir’s text reveals that the settler–native clash is an existential conflict constructed on imposing an exclusivist identity in Palestine. Nisanit exemplifies that the Israeli authorities use a range of domination methods to achieve their goals of settler colonialism, including discrimination, violence, arrests, imprisonment, social segregation, and cultural stereotyping. Meanwhile, the Palestinians respond to the Israeli domination by adopting various models of resistance such as guerrilla warfare and revolutionary actions organised by the local resistance movements.

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