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Abstract

Yasmina Khadra, a female name, pseudonym of Muhammed Moulessehoul, an Algerian military officer for 25 years is now a French citizen. John Cullen translates The attack (2006) from French. Rosenau's post-modernist perspective places the Israel-Palestine conflict in a context of social gap. Israel, a First World, whereas Palestine Third World, are both in the Middle East region. Amin Jaafari and his wife, Sihem, a couple of Arab naturalized citizens of Israel, live in urban cosmopolitan city of Tel Aviv. Opposing Amin's success as a surgeon, Sihem is more attracted to fight for the Palestinian liberation for a homeland. Sihem camouflaged herself with prosthetic pregnancy, blew bombs in a Tel Aviv caf , and died. McLeod's postcolonial point of view places Sihem as a hero. Woodward's concept of identity addresses the Jaafaris' troubled identity. Thus, opposition against urban cosmopolitan setting is the central theme as a notion of identity of that of the protagonists responding to their set situation.

References

Cioffi, Frank L. “Postmodernism: Etc.; An interview with Ihab Hassan – interview”, (http://findarticles.com/P/articles/mi_m2242/is_1622_278/ ai_72986218), diakses 31 Juli 2007.

Khadra, Yasmina. 2006. The attack. Translated from the French by John Cullen. London: Vintage Books. (Original title L’attentat (Broché), 2005).

McLeod, John. 2000. Beginning postcolonialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Rosenau, Pauline Marie. 1992. Post-modernism and the social sciences; Insights, inroads, and intrusions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Woodward, Kathryn (ed.). 1999. Identity and difference. London: Sage Publications. (Culture, Media, Identities Series).

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