المنفى بعين الراوي الطفل ومركزية الأيقونة في قصة "أرض البرتقال الحزين" "لغسان كنفاني"

Résumé

This study aims to investigate the experience of exile and its psychological effects on the stability of Palestinian children in the story «The Land of the Sad Oranges» by the Palestinian writer Ghassan KANAFANI. The writer portrays the anxieties of pain and helplessness faced by children after losing their safety, which deepened by the non-resistance of their parents' generation to the authority's arbitrary decision. This created a division in the language of communication within Palestinian families, as exile became a psychological confrontation between the homeland – the origin of truth and reference – and the unfamiliar and foggy place. The author attributes this narrative description to the «child» witness, who beheld and documented the suffering of his family in different places, thus generating narrative expressions resulting from an awareness of the unspoken and making it a realistic horizon in its political and social contexts. The narrator's voice merges with that of the author as they seek an alternative to belonging through documenting the situation.