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The Image of Jerusalem in Modern Palestinian Literature. A Preliminary Study

Abstract This study attempts to assess the literary representation of the City of Jerusalem (Al-Quds) in modern Palestinian literature, after the Palestinian Nakbeh (Catastrophe) in 1948. It sets the tone, the direction, and the political and cultural background for considering the dominant history of the Palestinian fears of the actual and the potential losing of the place. How does this gripping feeling of loss condition, to a large extent, the image formation of the City? The Palestinian sense of loss is indicative of the Palestinian writers' attachment to the East sector of the City, since the urban West Jerusalem has almost no presence in their creative consciousness. The study discusses why and how the Old City of Jerusalem has become the emblematic locus of the Palestinian literary representation, and why, by the same virtue, the country or the rural setting functions as the most appropriate and defining reflector of Jerusalem's reality-based image. Within the historical, national, and religious context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Jerusalem of Christ is of dramatic magnificence for the image of Jerusalem in modern Palestinian literature.