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Publication details [#26979]

Najjar, Orayb Aref. 1996. 'The editorial family of al-Kateb bows in respect': The construction of Martyrdom Text Genre in ons Palestinian political and literary magazine. Discourse & Society 7 (4) : 499–530.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | genre | narrative | news reporting | press

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper which examines Martyrs lists from the Palestinian al -Kateb magazine, demonstrates that this highly communicative 'martyrdom' text genre serves to explain, ease and prescribe sacrifice and to comment on Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations.