Code-Switching, Memory and the (Im)possibility of Return in Ghada Karmi’s Return: A Palestinian Memoir

IF 0.7 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Changing English-Studies in Culture and Education Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI:10.1080/1358684X.2023.2165039

B. Hamamra, Asala Mayaleh

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ABSTRACT This article examines the role of code-switching in recreating the place, Palestine, that contemporary Palestinian memoirist Ghada Karmi was expelled from by providing a close analysis of the code-switched expressions and the plurality of voices and perspectives that this linguistic and cultural phenomenon imply in her work Return: A Palestinian Memoir. While code-switching is a feature of diasporic writings, Karmi uses many code-switched expressions related to food, clothes, honorific titles and the historical event of Nakba so as to linguistically return to Palestine. However, Karmi’s engagement with Palestine from past to present, her exploration of the political transformation of Palestine and her inability to feel connected to today’s Palestine raises the spectre of co-existence between Palestinians and Israelis if Palestinian refugees return physically to Palestine. This possibility of co-existence between the two warring nations is further highlighted by Karmi’s use of Hebrew code-switched words, which exist alongside code-switched words related to precolonial Palestine.

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在Ghada Karmi的《回归:巴勒斯坦人回忆录》中，语码转换、记忆和回归的可能性

摘要本文通过对当代巴勒斯坦回忆录作家加达·卡尔米的作品《归来：巴勒斯坦回忆录》中代码转换的表达方式以及这种语言和文化现象所隐含的多种声音和视角的深入分析，探讨了代码转换在重建被驱逐出的巴勒斯坦中的作用。虽然代码转换是流散文学的一个特点，但卡尔米使用了许多与食物、衣服、尊称和纳克巴历史事件有关的代码转换表达，以便在语言上回到巴勒斯坦。然而，卡尔米从过去到现在与巴勒斯坦的接触，她对巴勒斯坦政治转型的探索，以及她无法感受到与今天的巴勒斯坦的联系，都引发了如果巴勒斯坦难民实际返回巴勒斯坦，巴勒斯坦人和以色列人之间共存的幽灵。Karmi使用的希伯来语代码转换词进一步突出了两个交战国家之间共存的可能性，这些单词与殖民前巴勒斯坦的代码转换词一起存在。

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