Historicity, repatriation and the intellectual in Palestinian national discourse after Oslo
This dissertation sets out to analyze the role of historical understanding in the Palestinian national discourse on repatriation â the unifying national goal since the <i>nakba</i> (catastrophe) of depatriation in 1948. Broadly, it explores the persistent presence of history in Palestinian discourse, surmounting constant pressures to marginalize it. It argues that Palestinian understandings of history are particularly usefully traced through representations of the role and social function of the intellectual, as figure and notion. It examines how figures of the intellectual have been defined in relation to distinctive Palestinian notions of the political, the national and, primarily, the historical â and how representations of repatriation have underscored these relations. The analysis aims to understand the challenge posed to these notions by the Oslo accords of 1993. It argues that the accords recast the framework for relations between the political, the national, the intellectual and the historical in Palestinian discourse in ways understood by many of those discussed as unparalleled since the early years of the PLO that had previously provided the clearest framework for these relations. Oslo prompted
Hill, T. J. W.
Historicity, repatriation and the intellectual in Palestinian national discourse after Oslo. This dissertation sets out to analyze the role of historical understanding in the Palestinian national discourse on repatriation â the unifying national goal since the <i>nakba</i> (catastrophe) of depatriation in 1948. Broadly, it explores the persistent presence of history in Palestinian discourse, surmounting constant pressures to marginalize it. It argues that Palestinian understandings of history are particularly usefully traced through representations of the role and social function of the intellectual, as figure and notion. It examines how figures of the intellectual have been defined in relation to distinctive Palestinian notions of the political, the national and, primarily, the historical â and how representations of repatriation have underscored these relations. The analysis aims to understand the challenge posed to these notions by the Oslo accords of 1993. It argues that the accords recast the framework for relations between the political, the national, the intellectual and the historical in Palestinian discourse in ways understood by many of those discussed as unparalleled since the early years of the PLO that had previously provided the clearest framework for these relations. Oslo prompted
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