Centering Place in Tawfiq Canaan’s Literary Cartography

IF 1.2 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES
Amanda Batarseh
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Abstract In the early-twentieth century, Palestinian physician and ethnographer Tawfiq Canaan published roughly forty-five studies on the cultural and narrative traditions of the largest section of Palestinian society, the fellaheen (peasantry). In this article, the author examines how Canaan’s expansive collection of stories related to holy sites across Palestine in Mohammedan Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine (1927) produces a provocative literary cartography—a narrative that operates much like a map. In so doing, she contends that Canaan both contests orientalist constructions of the Holy Land as frozen in biblical time and, critically, unsettles the very spatiotemporal logic governing dominant colonial narrations of place. This epistemic shift, the author concludes, is the result of Canaan’s recentering of Indigenous Palestinian place-based knowledge as both the subject and method of his study. This approach offers instructive lessons applicable within and beyond the disciplinary, regional, and temporal boundaries that have so far circumscribed the study and reception of Canaan’s work.
陶菲克·迦南文学制图中的中心位置
在20世纪早期,巴勒斯坦医生和民族志学家Tawfiq Canaan发表了大约45篇关于巴勒斯坦社会中最大的一部分felaheen(农民)的文化和叙事传统的研究。在这篇文章中,作者研究了迦南在《巴勒斯坦的穆罕默德圣徒和圣所》(1927)中关于巴勒斯坦各地圣地的大量故事集是如何产生了一种具有煽动性的文学制图——一种像地图一样运作的叙事。在这样做的过程中,她认为迦南既挑战了东方主义者对圣地的建构,因为它被冻结在圣经的时间里,而且,批判性地,扰乱了统治着主要殖民地叙事的时空逻辑。作者总结说,这种认识上的转变是迦南重新将巴勒斯坦本土的地方知识作为他研究的主题和方法的结果。这种方法提供了有益的教训,既适用于学科、地区和时间的界限,也适用于学科、地区和时间的界限,这些界限迄今为止限制了对迦南作品的研究和接受。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Palestine Studies, the only North American journal devoted exclusively to Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict, brings you timely and comprehensive information on the region"s political, religious, and cultural concerns. Inside you"ll find: •Feature articles •Interviews •Book reviews •Quarterly updates on conflict and diplomacy •A settlement monitor •Detailed chronologies •Documents and source material •Bibliography of periodical literature
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