Edward Said
In “States” the author, Edward Said, discloses the story of his people, the Palestinians, in an epic to express to the world the disconcerting challenges endured by the struggling Palestinian culture. The underlying claim is that of which is fair for any people to aspire, the dream to be master in your own house. Thus translated into the ideals of nationalism: blood and belonging. Said uses a combination of both photographs and writing style to tell a story that is deeper than the plain text.
It is hard to be master in your own house if there is no place to call home. Palestinians live in occupied territories where their cultural traditions are absorbed, or lost, however they, as a people, are not being accepted. Wherever they go they will be branded as ‘Palestinian’, but as to what constitutes a Palestinian is a question which brings light to the issue of a fading cultural identity. The first picture in the essay of a wedding, where the “bride and groom wear the ill-fitting,......
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