Windows to our homeland: Poetic dialogues of Palestinian granddaughter and grandmother in the diaspora
Abstract
This project seeks to understand how Palestine is embodied in narrative performances between diasporic Palestinian granddaughter and grandmother. Further, this project asks how these performances are nuanced by their intersectional identities and positions in a colonial state. Through performance ethnography, ethnographic interviewing, and poetic transcription, this project (re)presents poems on my grandmother's Palestinian history, and our collective, current experience of Palestinian diaspora. These poetic performances are also analyzed through the lens of performance theory, feminist intersectional theory, and decolonial theory. In doing this, this project moves towards an understanding of how Palestine is discursively created through embodied storytelling between granddaughter and grandmother, and how these ‘mundane’ performances in the private sphere have broader political implications.
