Exasperating Rides and Bittersweet Duties

Abstract This article offers a contextual analysis of Annemarie Jacir’s film Wajib . I argue that Jacir employs the tropes ‘the exasperating ride’ and ‘bittersweet duty’ as means demonstrating material conditions endured by Palestinians in Nazareth, documenting mundane acts sumuud face personal collective traumas, articulating complex sociopolitical landscape inhabited Palestinians. Employing interrelated ride bittersweet duty, ‘humors Palestinian homeland’, thereby eschewing clichéd representations The usage term ‘humor’ refers to sense eliciting frivolousness, well accommodating difference. protagonists often utilize humor survival mechanism; they also other Palestinians, whose worldviews, relationship land modalities steadfastness may differ from their own. emphasizes polyphonous voices circumventing an exclusive master-narrative about homeland.