CULTURAL OTHERNESS, SOCIAL DISPLACEMENT AND POLITICAL AMBIVALENCE IN GHADA KARMI'S MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN: ISRAEL'S DILEMMA IN PALESTINE

Abstract

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a political struggle that exploits its paradoxes spatio-temporally to dynamize the concreteness of otherness, displacement and ambivalence. Two nations with different racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds are bludgeoned into self-defense, autonomy, superstructure and over-dominance. Many theoretical and empirical studies are declared to approach the historical dichotomy between Palestine and Israel, but no one seems a subtle evidence for analyzing the phantasmatic quality of this classical hierarchization. In fact, it is a verbal and material embodiment that enunciates the subjective and fetishistic connotations of the colonialist discourse. The Manichaeism between Palestine and Israel is a simulacrum of difference and differentiation that expunge one identity to contextualize the power dynamics of another one. Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine is one of Ghada Karmi's magnum opuses where she deconstructs the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from its political, cultural, economic and social double-consciousness. In fact, she addresses Israel's dilemma with Palestine syntagmatically and diachronically to create a thematic and systematic disquisition of its latent substratum. This literary framework is a literal argumentation of the pseudo and metaphorical representation that disenchants the historical arborescence of Palestine. That's why this paper tries to perlustrate the main argumentative approaches that are addressed by Ghada Karmi for evidencing the importance of the Palestinian cause in understanding too many anthropological and epistemological phenomena that get provoked by the universality of the imperialist regime in conceptualizing the 'Three Worlds' theory. Therefore, how does Israeli effacement of Palestine's entity contribute to the reconstruction of two paradoxical identities that redefine the denotative and connotative senses of otherness, displacement and ambivalence?