y separately published work icon Asiatic periodical issue   peer reviewed assertion
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... vol. 16 no. 2 December 2022 of Asiatic est. 2007 Asiatic
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Promoting Identity and a Sense of Belonging : An Ecocritical Reading of Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name, Muneera Muftah , single work criticism
'This paper examines Randa Abdel-Fattah’s novel entitled Where the Street Had a Name (2008).The main goal is to examine how interacting with ecology, culture, and nature in the contexts of the host land and the homeland as depicted in the novel promotes identity and a sense of belonging. It also aims at analyzing the links between land and identity from an ecocritical perspective and how Palestinians’ land and identity are psychologically, mentally, and physically interconnected. Through using natural forms of Palestine, humans’ and non-humans’ interconnectedness and the symbol of the iconic jar of homeland soil and its possibilities for revitalising Hayaat’s identity, Abdel-Fattah attempts to reveal her ecological connection to the land of her origin and how this tight connection promotes identity and shapes the sense of belonging. This paper reveals that it is impossible to separate Palestinians from their homeland because the land is part of their identity. Therefore, the current debate provides new perspectives on how to open a new horizon for identity strengthening in Abdel-Fattah’s and other Muslim diasporic writers’ works.' (Publication abstract) 
(p. 87-102)
X