Open Access
American Research Journal of English and Literature
ISSN (Online): 2378-9026
DOI: 10.46568/arjel
Diaspora in the Land of Sad Oranges
Abstract
This paper deals with the notion of Diaspora regarding the short story of the land of Sad Oranges by Ghassan Kanafani. The
orange in this work represents and remains metaphorical; a faded memory instead of a symbol of the happy existence the
family lived before its children becoming exiles. The orange represents a psychological, familial, and social catastrophe in
the tale. It represents the political asylum, pessimism, and acceptance of the reality of loss.The sorrowful country portrays
the several multiple aspects of the Palestinian catastrophe in many shapes and it is a collection of several bends against
sensation and memories, as well as a group of many bends at the front of the human agony contained in this mirror.
Kanafani latest attempt to construct his rise to the concept of the Palestinian perspective, which he wants to depict with
words, is The Land of the Sad Oranges. Kanafani here explains the sorrow and the bitterness of being an expatriate and
expelled from the motherland by force.
