Edward Said, Postcolonialism and Palestine's Contested Spaces

Abstract

Postcolonialism, profoundly influenced by the Palestinian scholar Edward Said, has until recently been oddly silent on Palestine, a topic that not only preoccupied Said's thinking and writing, but also inspired his theoretical ideas on imperialism, anti-colonial struggle and the worldliness and affiliations of the text and the critic. This theoretical silence on Palestine was, in fact, preceded by a historical, political, geographical, social and cultural contestation of all forms of Palestinian spaces that include not only dispossessing Palestinians of their land, but also building apartheid walls, destroying hundreds of thousands of olive trees, appropriating/stealing traditional Palestinian dishes and clothes, silencing Palestinian narratives and the Muslim call to prayer. This paper will argue that these contested spaces necessarily become sites of Palestinian cultural production, struggle and sumud.

Resistensi dalam Literasi

“…Artikel jurnal yang ditulis Hamdi (2017) menyimpulkan bahwa meskipun poskolonialisme dikemukakan oleh pemikir asal Palestina, yaitu Edward Said, namun kajian poskolonialisme terhadap Palestina masih minim karena adanya kontestasi sejarah, politik, geografis, sosial dan budaya dari semua bentuk ruang Palestina, termasuk dengan membungkam narasi Palestina. Buku yang ditulis Ball (2012) secara khusus menganalisis berbagai karya sastra dan film dari seniman Palestina, antara lain Liana Badr, Annemarie Jacir, dan Elia Suleiman, dengan menggunakan teori feminis poskolonial, untuk mengungkapkan lintasan kesadaran gender di tengah masyarakat Palestina.…”