Conflict, Repression and Resistance in Suzan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water

Abstract

The study presents an overview of the Zionist- Palestinian conflict and the oppression exercised by the occupying authority against the legitimate land owners in Suzan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Water and Sky. The research addresses the resistance displayed by the Palestinian people in response to the wave of violence and repression by the Zionist colonizers. Moreover, the study casts light on idea of the Cameroonian political- political theorist Achille Mbembe as per his theory entitled “Necropolitics”  and its connection to the assassination of the young Palestinian girl ‘Maryam’ on the hands of Zionists and their refusal to return her corpse to her family. In this respect, the study aims to provide a clear discourse on the bold stance taken by the younger generations of exiled Palestinian families against the Zionist oppression and apartheid.