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TY - CHAP
T1 - Chronic Trauma, (Post) Colonial Chronotopes And Palestinian Lives
T2 - Omar Robert Hamilton's Though I Know the River is Dry/Ma'a Anni A'rif Anna al-Nahr Qad Jaf
AU - Moore, Lindsey
AU - Qabaha, Ahmad
PY - 2015/10/12
Y1 - 2015/10/12
N2 - International recognition of Palestinian trauma, including the foundational trauma of al-nakba (‘the catastrophe’) of 1948, is the cornerstone of the collective Palestinian struggle for self-determination. Hegemonic Israeli versions of history, however, continue to obstruct Palestinian counter-representational efforts to make their trauma visible. This is not only about who has the loudest voice; that is to say, the most powerful (political and economic) backing. Nor is the problem confined to the progressive disappearance of Palestinian land or viable habitus, producing a near impossible present and future. The close fit that has obtained between trauma studies and recuperated Holocaust histories, and the use of trauma discourse to sediment Israeli self-definition, have deferred acknowledgement of Palestinian trauma as a political and ethical imperative.
AB - International recognition of Palestinian trauma, including the foundational trauma of al-nakba (‘the catastrophe’) of 1948, is the cornerstone of the collective Palestinian struggle for self-determination. Hegemonic Israeli versions of history, however, continue to obstruct Palestinian counter-representational efforts to make their trauma visible. This is not only about who has the loudest voice; that is to say, the most powerful (political and economic) backing. Nor is the problem confined to the progressive disappearance of Palestinian land or viable habitus, producing a near impossible present and future. The close fit that has obtained between trauma studies and recuperated Holocaust histories, and the use of trauma discourse to sediment Israeli self-definition, have deferred acknowledgement of Palestinian trauma as a political and ethical imperative.
U2 - 10.1057/9781137526434_2
DO - 10.1057/9781137526434_2
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84967354337
SN - 9781349569342
SP - 14
EP - 29
BT - Postcolonial Traumas
A2 - Ward, Abigail
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -