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Postcolonial and literary scholars have discussed colonialism as the invasion of the home. This notion is something that resonates within the Israel and Palestine context, especially with a large Palestinian population being exiled outside the country. This essay will use the notion of the home to explore how the poem "In Jerusalem" is a reaction of the poet Tamim al-Barghouti in seeing his father's hometown for the first time. It will investigate how the poet navigates within the Arab literary traditions as a way to claim back the home from where his father was previously exiled. The discussion is led by the poem's close reading which considers the poem itself as a reconstruction of the home (Jerusalem) in absence of the poet's contact with it.
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