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Byrd, Jodi A. Byrd, Jodi A. Howe, LeAnne Koshy, Susan Nguyen, Mimi Thi Naber, Nadine Ghanayem, Eman 2020-10-07T22:49:51Z 2020-10-07T22:49:51Z 2022-10-07T22:50:13Z 2020-07-10 2020-08 “Nations without Nationalisms: On Palestinian and American Indian Literary Imaginations” approaches settler colonialism as a story that exhibits complex identity politics, competing concepts of humanity, and overlapping narratives of diaspora and trauma. It is also a story that is constantly disputed by Indigenous presence and decolonial and international movements of resistance. I explore indigeneity as a category of identification to better understand forced and voluntary migrations and what constitutes the concepts of settler, refugee, and migrant in the United States and Israel. Building on an interpretive framework that situates Indigenous theory alongside Palestine studies, my dissertation has two major arguments. First, I critique settler nationalism and approach the United States and Israel as exhibiting a discursive allegiance to each other and, more broadly, to European principles of nationhood. I develop this analysis by drawing a transnational web of literary exchanges in the nineteenth century that includes Emma Lazarus, George Eliot, Mordecai Noah, Theodor Herzl, and Israel Zangwill. Second, I argue that Indigenous nations, as land-based collectives that have functioned without statehood, intervene in popular assumptions that the nation-state is the only form of legitimate belonging. Here, I analyze expressions of indigeneity in Palestinian and American Indian writings towards conceptualizing “Indigenous literature” as a global literary genre with shared literary patterns and significant political interventions. Approaching this genre comparatively, I analyze representations of being, land, and political movement as an Indigenous literary modulation of character, setting, and plot, and as they unfold in the writings of Mahmoud Darwish, Samih Al-Qasim, Suheir Hammad, Steven Salaita, Leanne Simpson, and LeAnne Howe. As it exists today, U.S. scholarship can benefit from incorporating a global narrativization of indigeneity and ongoing colonialisms and attending more closely to their cultural nuances. Furthermore, learning from Palestine as a microcosmic example of modern-day settlement, exile, and ethnic conflict can help us understand the precarious relationship between displacement and nationalism in the U.S. and in many other parts of the world. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-08-01 The student, Eman Ghanayem, accepted the attached license on 2020-07-10 at 02:25. The student, Eman Ghanayem, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-07-10 at 02:58. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-07-10 at 15:53. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15556 on 2020-10-02 at 15:50:12 Made available in DSpace on 2020-10-07T22:49:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 GHANAYEM-DISSERTATION-2020.pdf: 995068 bytes, checksum: 32b1ee24e3454377264ef821bda3b8d9 (MD5) EmanGhanayem_Dissertation.docx: 269173 bytes, checksum: 2f0f074eb63e804656c4056297713d76 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 279b6b01caeb68b81b850351b0be3b92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2020-07-10 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 116314 Lift date: 2022-10-07T22:50:13Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/108685 en Copyright 2020 Eman Ghanayem Palestine Indigenous North America settler colonialism diaspora literary resistance Nations without nationalisms: on Palestinian and American Indian literary imaginations text Thesis English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.