Literature of the Palestinian Cause: Heroic Cultural Resistance and the Consolidation of Identity (A Study of Selected Examples from Contemporary Arabic Poetry)

Abstract

The most dangerous thing facing the individual is the crisis of identity, which is the
result of conflict between religions, especially the colonizer countries looking for making a
deep discrepancy within their colonies for destroying their social constructions and systems
so that their cultural construction would change, and they become strange within their lands
through eradicating their identities’ features and destroying their historical, national and
religious symbols. The real example of that conflict is the conflict between Palestine and the
Zionistic entity. It isn’t only a political conflict, it’s rather a conflict of different religions
including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Its objective is to create a cultural gap and a crisis
of identity, which makes a division within the Palestinian society, which would deteriorate its
identity and belonging.