Exilic Consciousness and Diasporic ‘Third Space’ in Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research proposes a decolonial interpretation of Palestinian diaspora and exile in Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World (2020). Through its interdisciplinary exploration, this paper raises the question of how diasporic being and exilic consciousness furnish a bodily ‘Third Space’ that encompasses both a scattering (shitat) and focal grassroot resistance. This paper proposes an intersectional analysis and a praxis of decolonizing the body in exile and diaspora by approaching it from a deconstructive reading of a ‘Third Space.’ Through multidimensional ways, Nahr’s body becomes a site for colonial resistance that refutes and disrupts hegemonic discrimination. The antihero challenges institutionalized sociopolitical milieus, and supremacist ideologies that aim to circumnavigate her resistance against what are the ‘symptoms’ of diaspora. This reclamation of agency over her body and her eventual falling into radical love are argued to constitute the exilic consciousness with which Nahr decolonizes her own body within a ‘Third Space’ and in turn, her fluid, diasporic being. Thereby, the findings of this research conclude that the novel will incessantly cement a perennial timelessness; for ever since its publication, the novel is considered as the most relevant Palestinian novel, specifically to the Shaikh Jarrah uprising and the 2021 war on Gaza, followed by the century’s 2023-2024 International Court of Justice ruling on order of Israel’s committing genocide in the strip.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".