The Aesthetics of the Village in Palestinian Novels: Beit Hanoun as a Model

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the image of Beith Hanoun village as embodied by various Palestinian novelists in order to understand this image and to shed light on its significance and role. This is because various Palestinians novelists intended to highlight multiple aspects of life in this Palestinian village. This study revolve around four key domains: the title, the geographical space of Beith Hanoun, various models of the struggle of the people of the village and its resistance, and the features of social life in the village. Also, the study sought to disclose the means of artistic formation employed by the writers to build their stories such as : monitoring the events persona of the novel, the elements of language and narrative such as: employment of consciousness, the association of ideas, and recall, and the two types of dramatic dialogue, both internal and external, and the use of heritage. These techniques, in congregation, contributed to convey the experiences of novelists as well as to embody their humanistic visions. The study concluded that the various novels that tackled Beith Hanon depicted all its dimensions and categories. They also revealed the relationship between the people of Beith Hanon and their land; their love and affection to it. The novelists were successful in determining the settings of their novels in ways which contributed to the building of events, persona, narrative, and dialogue. The novelists combined direct narrative which is based on portraying and analysis with the awareness stream which expresses the content through conscious persona. The language of the novels was characterized with plainness, simplicity, and clarity, and it bypassed extensive use of local and humble language with an occasional tendency to employ indicative poetic language in ways that developed events and revived distinctive situations to depict a holistic picture of living reality.