Transformations in Palestinian Literature
Transformations in Palestinian Literature Leo Tolstoy prefaced his Anna Karenina with the following statement: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Palestinians today are unlucky enough to be counted among the world's leading families of multifarious misery, the Zionist project having transformed them, time and again, into refugees in far-flung places-and also into refugees on the land of Palestine in which they were born. Some of them have had to live through the experience of exile and alienation, of refugee camps and endless waiting. Others have ...