My choice of these specific writers is deliberate, as I am teaching Palestinian students who are refugees and who cannot, for obvious reasons, separate their struggle from the futuristic vision offered by the writers, especially that provided by Ghassan Kanafani. However, the selection of the writers Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine), Ndjabulo Ndebele (South Africa), Sembene Ousmane (Senegal), and Nuruddin Farah (Somalia), among others, pose a critical question concerning the definitions of (post)colonial and resistance literature, and its attendant issues of the development of anti-colonial nationalism and national identity. We are examining the political consciousness, or lack thereof, of the colonized characters and their contradictory efforts to overcome psychological and social alienation through individual projects or escapes to the collective processes of armed struggle and revolutionary transformation. This academic year I am teaching two Palestinian novels and a couple of short stories, among other (post)colonial texts.
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