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Title Manifestion 'Sumud' in the Wake of 'Ongoing-Nakba': Tracing Elements of Cultural Trauma in Selected Palestinian Novels

Author(s) FARYAL RIAZ

Abstract ABSTRACT Title: Manifesting Sumud in the Wake of On-going Nakba: Tracing Elements of Cultural Trauma in the Selected Palestinian Novels This thesis is an effort to contribute to the vast pool of scholarship on the gathering of trauma, the birth of Sumud, the use of non-traditional narrative in disseminating the spirit of Nakba and writing that helps to pursue and further the cause of liberation in Palestinian literature. It analyzes the Palestinian novels The Blue between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa and The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem. While trauma theory has brought an understanding of the recondite subject of identity issues and coping mechanisms against the defenseless fragility of humans and societies, its study has been limited to the traumatic episodes in the West. To serve the need of documenting the traumatic incidents happening in the Middle East, this work has deployed the concept of Cultural Trauma by Jeffery C. Alexander and Chosen Trauma by Vamik D. Volkan to understand the trauma in the selected Palestinian novels. By exploring the wounded Palestinian community, with attention to the influence of the traumatic context and close textual analysis of the texts, the findings of the study reveal that the target community has been subjected to immense brutality, which is not just limited to their expulsion from their land but includes an appropriation of everything that speaks of the identity of native Palestinians. This thesis argues that both these texts serve as an alternate voice in serving the national narrative by exposing elements of Nakba as an ascribable event and reaffirming its codification as a Cultural trauma.

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Publication Date 2023-10-09

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