Recounting Memories of Resistance in 33 Days

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11660983
AutoresSyrine Hout (autor de correspondencia), Syrine Hout Syrine Hout
Año2016
Volumen38
Número2
Fecha de publicación2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArab Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0271-3519 • E-ISSN: 2043-6920
EditorialPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/arabstudquar.38.2.0481
OpenAlexW2345062386
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas18

In this article, I examine the only entirely fictional film made so far about Israel's July 2006 war on Lebanon: the Lebanese-Iranian film 33 Days (2012). I demonstrate how this cinematic intervention, centered on the real-life Battle of Aita al-Shaab, provides a counter-hegemonic narrative to the mostly Western and largely orientalist views not only of this war but of the history of conflict between two opposed political imaginaries: the Israeli on the one hand and the discourse of resistance on the other. I argue that the film's featuring a web of different types of intersecting memories—personal and collective, traumatic and inherited (post-memories)—of both Lebanese and Israeli characters is instrumental for (re)defining resistance as an ongoing project with both a historical trajectory and an eye to the future of Arab-Israeli armed conflict. While memories are used to recount parts of the (hi)story of combat against Israeli offensives, they also force Israeli commanders to recount, i.e., to recalculate, their own tactics and strategies as they encounter an unwavering and surprising opponent

Adversary · Ancient history · Art · Battle · Collective memory · Hegemony · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Middle East Politics and Society