The Continuity of Identity in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin
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Abstract
Identity has been central in diasporic Palestinian literature since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948. However, the concept of continuity in personal identity remains in the shadow in scholarly works. Based on the significance of the interplay of personal identity’s social, psychological, and physical continuity and the lack of focus on this triangulated perspective of identity in previous studies of Palestinian literature, this paper explores personal identity’s social, psychological and physical continuity as depicted in the novel Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa, a Palestinian diasporic writer. With a particular focus on Abulhawa’s perception of personal identity, the current study examines the juxtaposed projections of personal identity for Palestinians after the Nakba. The dialectics of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, by Georg Hegel, guide the discussion of the triangulated continuities of personal identity. Our findings disclose that Abulhawa manifests a continuation of the ancestors’ thesis; solidity and continuity are projected before Nakba. As a result of the Palestinians’ disconnection from their homeland, the physical continuity is crushed. Shatat is becoming increasingly psychologically and socially antithetical to Palestinian personal identity as the Palestinians get deeper into Shatat. Attempts to assimilate with American culture are projected as the most aggravated antithesis of crushed psychological and social continuity in the United States. Furthermore, commitment to nonaggression, regardless of the intensity of conflicts, appears as a vital thread keeping a sense of interrelated psychological continuity to humankind. Therefore, the synthesis of personal identity is unreachable due to the still ongoing Shatat.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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.
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