Voices of Palestinian Resistance: A Postcolonial Reading of Adania Shibli's Minor Detail and Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Resistance is a key tenet within the framework of postcolonial literature, particularly in the context of the Palestinian-Zionist(Israeli) conflict. Resistance literature challenges oppression and injustice, highlighting the voices of marginalized populations and exposing their struggles for liberation and identity. It turns the literature into a tool for decolonization and reclamation of identity and history. Palestinian writers use personal experiences and historical events to construct narratives that challenge the dominant structures of colonial powers. This issue has been examined from different perspectives within literature. However, studying Adania Shibli's novel Minor Detail (2020) and Isabella Hammad's novel Enter Ghost (2023) as voices of resistance has not been done in light of postcolonial theory. Thus, the current study explores this gap by examining the selected novels that become voices of resistance against the colonial powers and narratives. Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1963) is utilized to examine the anti-colonial narratives in the selected texts through Fanon's Decolonization concept, exploring how the characters resist and challenge colonial discourses and oppressive forces. Through this analysis, the study illustrates how both Shibli and Hammad effectively use their texts to be powerful voices of resistance, highlighting the resilience of the Palestinian society. It concludes that the two selected novels depict the harsh realities of Israeli colonialism, as well as highlight the ongoing resilience and resistance of the Palestinian people through the characters of the Palestinian Researcher in Minor Detail and Sonia and Mariam in Enter Ghost.
Institution: University of Anbar
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $60
OpenAlex ID: W4414212024
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