ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses displacement in settler colonial contexts, and as represented in the two examples of Palestinian and American Indian writings. Oftentimes, Palestinian literature is analyzed in diasporic terms that do not materialize land and land-based belonging beyond exilic memorialization. On the other hand, American Indian narratives are predominately considered through an Indigenous lens that does not view Natives as refugees. By locating these narratives within comparable settler colonial conditions, this chapter examines writings by American Indian and Palestinian authors relationally to consolidate and understand the existential and introspective experience of being colonially displaced in the world today.
