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Abstract
This study explores the oral history of the Palestinian Nakba in selected poems by Mahmoud Darwish and Naomi Shihab Nye as two representatives of the Palestinian diaspora. The study depends on the theoretical attempts that put oral history as a form that stems from the integration of individual, collective, and popular memory. Also, oral history depends basically on the memory and testimony of the marginalized subaltern. Accordingly, the present study depends theoretically on testimonial literature as a medium between oral history and literature, and as a form that gives voice to the voiceless subaltern and challenges the exclusion of the indigenous Palestinian from the national, Israeli, or world discourse. This study is a descriptive, comparative, and thematic one that is based on reading, analyzing, and comparing. It traces the oral history of the Palestinian Nakba and shows the Nakba as a prolonged event in selected poems by Mahmoud Darwish and Naomi Shihab Nye. In Darwish’s poetry, the study traces the poet’s testimony of three phases of the Nakba: pre-Nakba and Nakba Palestine, the Nakba in Beirut, and the Nakba during the second Palestinian intifada (uprising). In Nye’s poetry, the present study investigates the poet’s testimony of three phases of the Nakba: the first and second generations’ testimony of the Nakba, the poet’s testimony for her people, and the young generation’s testimony of contemporary Palestinian life. The study also compares Darwish’s and Nye’s testimony of the Nakba and how their testimony provides a counter-narrative that challenges the Israeli hegemonic discourse, gives voice to the Palestinian voiceless subaltern, and calls for humanity and justice for the Palestinian people.