Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies

The Lost Place: A Study of the Images of Place in Palestinian Children’s Literature between 1967 and 2001

Hanan Mousa *

Department of Arabic Language and Literature, The College of Sakhnin (Academic College), Israel.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Abstract

This article attempts to read the phenomenon of place in Palestinian children’s stories between 1967 and 2001, within a political and cultural context that had an impact on Palestinian literary production. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study related to place in Palestinian children's literature. Therefore, this study came to fill in the missing in the children's literature.

Keywords: Palestinian children’s literature, political, homeland, open places, closed place

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