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On Literary Empathy and the Performative Reading of Palestinian Authors
The empathy cultivated through literature often remains a performative gesture confined to the realm of fiction.
Growing up as a young Palestinian-American woman in post-9/11 America was profoundly isolating.
The weight of Palestinian history and the trauma of the Nakba has seeped into the community, causing internal oppression. [ more ]