What is the summary of the story "The child goes to the camp" by Ghassan Kanafani
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The paper explores Ghassan Kanafani's short story "The Child Goes to the Camp" as a trauma narrative. A brief historical account of the Arab-Zionist conflict, critical employment of Jakobson's metaphor/metonymy and Foucault's heterotopia along with a detailed study of violence in the narrative augment the analysis presented in the paper in an aim to conclude that Kanafani's work eschews exact recalling of the traumatic past, and enacts a complex revision and/or a reconstruction of the traumatic experience.
The story "The child goes to the camp" by Ghassan Kanafani
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Purpose – This paper aims to present a critical appraisal of Ghassan Kanafani’s short story “The Child Goes to the Camp” using the Appraisal Theory proposed by Martin and Rose (2007) in an attempt to investigate the predicament of the Palestinians who were forced to flee their country and live in refugee camps as well as the various effects refugee life had on them.
Design/methodology/approach – Using the Appraisal Theory, and with a special focus on the categories of Attitude and Graduation, the paper aims to shed light on the plight of refugees through revealing the narrator’s suffering in a refugee camp where the most important virtue becomes remaining alive.
Findings – Analysing the story using the Appraisal Theory reveals the impact refugee life has left on the narrator and his family. This story serves as a warning for the world of the suffering refugees have to endure when they are forced to flee their war-torn countries.
Originality/value – Although Kanafani’ resistance literature has been studied extensively, his short stories have not received much scholarly attention. In addition, his works have not been subject to linguistic analysis. This study presents an appraisal analysis of Kanafani’s “The Child Goes to the Camp” in an attempt to investigate how the author’s linguistic choices are key to highlighting the suffering of the Palestinians, especially children, in refugee camps.