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A 5 page essay that summarizes and critiques an essay by Anton Shammas, "Finding Palestine," which considers the concepts of identity and of returning home in regards to a Palestinian girl living in the US. No additional sources cited.
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of searching, this writer determined that the author of this work is Anton Shammas and that it appears to be an essay. However, since the student has not indicated where
this essay can be located, this writer was unable to obtain a copy of the essay. However, below is an analysis of a similar article by Shammas, "Finding Palestine," which
is an excerpt from Shammas book The Geography of Identity. The concepts of identity and of returning home are complex and also problematic for Palestinians. For younger Palestinian refugees,
Palestine is a construct of memory that is gleaned from parents and grandparents. This is a topic that has been frequently addressed by Anton Shammas, a Palestinian writer who was
born in Israel and lives in the US in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For example, in his writing, Shammas relates the story of "A." a young Michigan girl who wants to
go home to a place that she has never seen. It was clear to A. that "going home" involves traveling to a
place that even though "you may have never see it in your life, still it is as if you had, it is a place that is the other, deep end
of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,000 Palestinians who had been " de-territorialized" by the creation
of the state of Israel. After spending a decade in one of the refugee camps, As father immigrated to Dearborn, Michigan, joining distant cousins of Lebanese descent (Shammas 24).
From this, one gathers that A. has heard about Palestine all her life. However, the Palestine that her father recounts is Palestine as it existed prior to 1948
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