Cultural Belonging and Identity Crisis in Habayeb’s Before the Queen Falls Asleep: A Palestinian Diaspora Study

Abstract

This observe explores the topics of cultural belonging and identification disaster in Habayeb’s Before the Queen Falls Asleep in the broader context of the Palestinian diaspora. The novel gives a poignant narrative that captures the emotional and mental struggles of displaced Palestinians, specifically women, grappling with fragmented identities throughout generational and geographical boundaries. The protagonist’s internal turmoil displays the collective revel in of exilic displacement, inherited reminiscence, and a continual yearning for a place of birth that exists extra vividly in creativeness than in bodily reality. Habayeb weaves private reminiscence with countrywide trauma, exposing how exile reshapes person and communal identities, main to a deep feel of unbelonging in each the host and the native land. The disaster of identification is exacerbated through a cultural disconnect, in which characters regularly sense alienated from the cultures they inhabit, but battle to absolutely hook up with the Palestinian identification that has been fashioned with the aid of using nostalgia, loss, and resistance. Through a diasporic lens, the examine analyzes how Habayeb articulates the anxiety among reminiscence and gift reality, subculture and modernity, and the continual look for self in a global marked via way of means of exile. This paper in the end argues that the unconventional powerfully illustrates the emotional expenses of diaspora via the lens of cultural displacement.