Diaspora in the Land of Sad Oranges

This paper deals with the notion of Diaspora regarding the short story of the land of Sad Oranges by Ghassan Kanafani.The orange in this work represents and remains metaphorical; a faded memory instead of a symbol of the happy existence the family lived before its children becoming exiles.The orange represents a psychological, familial, and social catastrophe in the tale.It represents the political asylum, pessimism, and acceptance of the reality of loss.The sorrowful country portrays the several multiple aspects of the Palestinian catastrophe in many shapes and it is a collection of several bends against sensation and memories, as well as a group of many bends at the front of the human agony contained in this mirror.Kanafani latest attempt to construct his rise to the concept of the Palestinian perspective, which he wants to depict with words, is The Land of the Sad Oranges.Kanafani here explains the sorrow and the bitterness of being an expatriate and expelled from the motherland by force.