أطفال غسان كنفاني : بين الفعل و شروطه التاريخية

Abstract EN

One of the major premises of Arab (post)colonial modernity is that the child could be a key bearer of change for a better future for the society.

For the child to be successful as a bearer of change, she must first be transformed into a modern subject.

In this article, I present the Palestinian case to explore this premise, examining the nature of the child as a modern subject with a particular type of agency.

Specifically, I will focus on how Ghassan Kanafani’s literary works represent the child as a sociopolitical agent.

I analyze several literary genres, including dedications, letters, short stories, and novels.

The article concludes that the suggested agency is a hybrid of child-adult agency, bounded by intergenerational succession in the context of patriarchal-colonial Palestine of the post-Nakba era.