The Precarity and Vulnerability of Palestinians in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010): An Intersectional Critique | ||
| المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الآداب-جامعة أسیوط | ||
| Article 39, Volume 33, Issue 96, October 2025, Pages 2117-2148 PDF (1.21 M) | ||
| Document Type: بحوث علمية محکمة | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/aakj.2025.425513.2234 | ||
| Author | ||
| Abeer M. Raafat Khalaf* | ||
| Faculty of Arts, Assiut University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The last two years have been a clear witness to the lies of Israel playing victim and its need to defend itself against Hamas. Today most of the world condemns Israel for committing genocide against the Palestinian people. By the time of the publication of this study, the researcher hopes that the genocide would have stopped completely. Feeling an urgent call to address the escalating incidents of violence in Palestine, Susan Abulahawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) is chosen for this study. The novel depicts the struggle of a Palestinian family for over sixty years amid the Palestinian Israeli conflict. Thus, it acts as a counter narrative against Israeli attempts to erase Palestinian history, culture, and identity. This study adopts an intersectional approach, specifically Patricia Hill Collins’s matrix of domination, which attempts to address the different kinds of oppression, involving the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, and other social markers, that characters experience. The lives of Palestinians are shaped by power operating through four domains: structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal which solidify their oppression. Applying Collins’s framework reveals the cost of political violence and emphasizes the role of counter narrative as a form of resistance against oppression. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Palestinian Israeli conflict; intersectionality; matrix of domination | ||
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