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Many writers attempted to convey to the world what is really happening in occupied countries, especially Palestine, to reveal the cruelty, mercilessness, and oppression that happen in these occupied countries. After the Palestinian uprising, Writers wanted to protest, not with guns but with their pens, because they knew the importance of honest words in people’s minds. Both Susan Abulhawa’s ”Mornings in Jenin” and Elizabeth Laird’s ”A Little Piece of Ground” are excellent examples of novelists who showed their protest against the Israel Occupation and children’s and women’s rights violations through their writings. This thesis discussed their ideas about occupation and its effect on children’s and women’s lives and rights. Those children live under economic, psychological, social, and cultural risks. They suffer problems of gender and domestic violence as well. The thesis tackles the problem from a post-colonial perspective. Abulhawa’s ”Morning in Jenin” and Laird’s ”A little piece of ground” are good examples of how to apply this theory. The researcher approved that the Post-Colonial Approach is considered the best approach to be applied to this thesis because it investigates the psychological effects that happen to both the colonizer and the colonized. The colonizer, who represents the Israeli occupation, passes through different psychological phases. In addition to what happens to the colonized people because of the colonizers’ continuous violations.
Additionally, the researcher could approve the violations of the Israeli occupation against Palestinian children and women, by comparing the events that occur to the characters of the two novels to the articles of the Convention of Human Rights of 1989 through the Post-colonial approach. The basis for creating this thesis is based on the fiction genres Mornings in Jenin (2010) by Palestinian novelist Susan Abuhawa and A Little Piece of Ground by the English writer Elizabeth Laird. The novels have been selected for their incorporation of postcolonial issues. Text analysis is used to write narratives such as fiction and short stories. (McQuillan 2020). According to the data analysis of stories around the post-colonial context, memory, and thought of countries in modern Palestine, especially in the post-colonial era, this thesis argues that post-colonial theory is necessary and important for analyzing the issue.
A little piece of the ground was a bold work that was undertaken by Laird in her effort to uncover the injustices that were being perpetrated against the local people in Palestine by the Israeli soldiers. The author has used the voice of children to air out her discontent with the inhuman behavior of the soldiers toward the innocent ambitious young minds. The book is an important source of information on matters of conflict and foreign policy and can be used as a justification for future changes in the interests of Israel in the Palestinian region.
The Arab American literary community is primarily interested in topics and issues related to the Arab World, such as trauma, dislocation of identity, and belonging. Therefore, this thesis aimed to analyze the violations of Palestinian children and women by the Israeli occupation in Mornings in Jenin by Suzan Abulhawa and A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird. The representation of trauma and diasporic identity in these books is examined. This thesis clarified how these violations caused trauma and displacement that influenced the character’s sense of self and nation. They are also interested in figuring out how well the novels represent Palestinian culture and identity. In doing so, the primary methodology used to examine the characters is post-colonialism. This thesis also sheds light on Palestinian-American literature and changes the way we think about identity. Mornings in Jenin and A Little Piece of Ground are true pictures of the Palestinian identity in the context of suffering and dispersion. Trauma and diaspora are therefore crucial ideas in the construction of Palestinian identity. (Silem 2017)
This thesis aimed to describe the Palestinian nation on the world map through description. As art forms, Susan Abulhawa’s Morning in Jenin (2010) and Elizabeth Laird’s A Little Piece of Ground are responses to the Jewish process, which tries to erase the Palestinians and their country from the world map after reversing the events of the 1948 disaster. This thesis traces the minds, souls, and bodies of immigrant Palestinian characters and their actions and behaviors connected to their country. (Ferhood 2010)
With the publication of Mornings in Jenin, Abulhawa has tried to bring Palestinian narratives into Western literature. The pain and suffering in the novel are intense because they are a reflection of Susan Abulhawa’s own emotionally tortured self. It is a crushingly effective novel, dealing with strong sentiments of love and loss, war and oppression, heartbreak and hope, spanning five countries and generations of one of the most tragic and intractable struggles in the world. The novel is highly praised around the world, as the Independent says: Abulhawa’s writing shines... Friendship, adolescence, love: ordinary events, offset against extraordinary circumstances, make the story live.