Abstract
By now it should be clear how the analytical reach of the in-between (liminal) concept covers the motifs in Palestinian literary works and films about identity, struggle for change, and liberation: both individual and national. This middle position appears to characterize the many aspects of the works under study: fictional characters, both literary and cinematic, who at times exist on literal or figurative borders; texts of indeterminate genre; and rhetoric of both resistance and reconciliation.
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Abdel-Malek, K. (2005). Conclusion. In: The Rhetoric of Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06667-1_9
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