From Family History to the History of a People: The Conflict in Palestine in "Le Palais des deux collines" by Karim Kattan

Larissa Luica

Abstract


In this article, we propose to analyse the way in which Karim Kattan uses a personal family story in his novel Le Palais des deux collines to recount events from the wider history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from 1948 to the present day. We will look at several aspects: the question of identity (between belonging to a people and the experience of exile), the allegorical device used by the author to create parallelism and the metaphorical role of certain main characters.


Keywords


Palestine; history; identity; exile; conflict; colonisation

References


Alvarado-Laroucau, C. (2009). Ecritures palestiniennes francophones : quête d’identité en espace néocolonial. L’Harmattan.

Kattan, K. (2021). Le Palais des deux collines (French Edition, Kindle Edition). Elyzad.

Lecoutre, C. (2011). Palestine et écriture, thèse, Université Paris X Nanterre. https://bdr.parisnanterre.fr/theses/internet/2011PA100079.pdf

Luică, L., & Necula, S. (in press). Images de la guerre dans Palestine de Hubert Haddad, communication au colloque international « Représentations de la guerre dans la littérature française de l’extrême contemporain », 17–18 mai 2021, Bucarest.

Quetel, Cl. (2012). Murs contre le terrorisme. In C. Quétel (Ed.), Histoire des murs. Une autre histoire des hommes (pp. 225–242). Perrin.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2023.47.4.61-71
Date of publication: 2024-01-30 11:25:54
Date of submission: 2023-09-04 13:51:20


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