The Dynamic Roles of Palestinian Revolutionary Literature pre and post OSLO رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

This research aims at examining the dynamic broader roles of Palestinian revolutionary literature as a safeguard for Palestinian culture, history, identity, and what the researcher calls the geographic ID. It also investigates the role of Palestinian literature in connecting the fragmented homeland of historic Palestine. It further examines the role literature has in connecting the Palestinians inside Palestine with those who have become part of the diaspora over the past seventy-plus years. The studies conducted for the research purposely were fashioned to deliberate and measure just what, if any, is the role of Palestinian literature in criticizing the corrupt international policies and if this medium played any role in leading the political process both pre-and post-Oslo. This research also delves into what level of importance was the role that Palestinian revolutionary literature had in generating international support and changing public attitudes towards Palestine in the West. Revolutionary literature was successful in refuting the false narrative of the Zionist historical claims to Palestine and the long-term agenda of pushing the false narratives through biased western media to support the occupation state of Israel. Besides, it sheds light on the continued importance of Palestinian revolutionary literature in inspiring the Palestinians in diaspora to inaugurate Palestinian cultural projects such the House of Palestine that has recently been completed in San Diego, USA. The research contains five chapters: Introduction, Theoretical framework, Methodology, Results and Analysis, and Conclusion and recommendations. The researcher combined qualitative and quantitative methodologies. In addition to conducting several interviews, a well-constructed questionnaire has been developed to for data collection. Locally, the study sample is limited to Palestinian students at Arab American University, University College of Educational Sciences, Najeeb Al-Ahmad High School, Jenin Industrial Secondary School. Internationally, the study targeted a sample of twelve undergraduate and post-graduate international students from the VI university of Bucknell, PA, United States of America. To prove the arguments and hypotheses of this research, the researcher addressed one overall question about what the dynamic roles that Palestinian revolutionary literature plays in the struggle against occupation are. The results of the research come in support of the arguments mentioned above. To mention a few, Palestinian revolutionary literature plays a key role in preserving the Palestinian culture, history, and identity, and in restoring the Palestinian national unity. Too, it maintains the geographical identity of the historic land of Palestine and change the stereotypical image of Palestine in the western media Accordingly, the researcher provided a set of recommendation including, but not limited to, raising awareness among the Palestinian academic institutions of the importance of this literature to put more focus into it, and encouraging the government to fund more Palestinian cultural projects locally and internationally. It is also highly recommended that Palestinian movie makers dramatize this revolutionary literature to ensure its global outreach