Language and Identity Issues in the Works of Emigrant Writers
Ghassan Kanafani. About the Writer's Style Formation
Published 2026-02-19
Keywords
- Edward Said,
- Palestinian Conflict,
- Identity Problem
Abstract
Ghassan Kanafani’s works are focused on one topic - Palestinian conflict and Palestinian people’s tragedy. Edward Said, an acclaimed American writer and Professor of Palestinian origin, writes that national self-consciousness is a claim to belong to a nation and some culture, have a right to feel somewhere “as between friends”. Strong sense of ethnic and national identity is evident in Ghassan Kanafani’s stories and poems.
Emotional imbalance, feeling of constant despair, loneliness and tragedy, constant return to the past, constant moves in time and space and monologues - everything that is very typical for Ghassan Kanafani.