Wael J Salam
Biographic Data
| ID | 228319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wael J Salam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Salam |
| SIGNATURE | SALAM W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3786-8607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Countering Palestinian nationalism and Zionist discourse with Palestinian resilience and resistance in Palestinian diasporic literature
Decolonizing the Blue Humanities: The Palestinian Journey of Displacement, Expulsion and Homelessness in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water
Oceanic and riverine spaces, represented by the River Suqreir and the Gaza Sea in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water , symbolize identity formation, life, freedom, and the Palestinian connection to the homeland. However, these waterscapes are marred by the violence of occupation, turning these aquatic areas into reminders of death, loss, and trauma. This article examines Abulhawa’s creative renditions of the River Suqreir and the Gaz…
The sea symbolism and the Palestinians’ traumatic memories of departure, displacement and death
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account
This article explores the thematic and aesthetic depictions of the colonized in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) by extending the postcolonial theory of the subaltern. This Moroccan American novel reconstructs the colonial history of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest narrated in Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s 1542 Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition by giving voice to the slave Mustafa/Estebanico and other subaltern peoples, including …
“Life in death”: Decolonizing Trauma in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer
This article examines the poetics of death in the Iraqi American writer Sinan Antoon’s novel The Corpse Washer. The novel depicts death as a leitmotif while emphasizing the perils of wars and violence on the Iraqi people. Throughout the novel, death is omnipresent, looming over the lives of the characters, particularly the protagonist Jawad who endures nightmares, hallucinations, and split personality. These conditions are engendered by prolonged…
Cross-cultural Romance: A Dialogic Evolution of Arab-Western Relations in Contemporary Arab Anglophone Women’s Literature
The current global landscape is characterised by transnationalism and diaspora, concepts that wield tools such as dialogism, heteroglossia, and the ““Unfinalisability”” of the self. In response to these transformative forces, a significant cohort of contemporary Arab Anglophone writers has embraced a dialogic paradigm. This article explores the artistic portrayal of Arab-Western relations through the literary works of two Arab Anglophone women wr…
The empire writes back: The Moor's Account 's decolonial appropriation of Cabeza de Vaca's La Relación
The article explores the aesthetic and stylistic strategies by which Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) decolonises Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s chronicle La Relación (1542) and hence writes back to the Spanish colonialism in the sixteenth century. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Panfilo de Narváez expedition to the New World centres on ‘peaceful conversion’, that is, the pacification of the natives so the Spanish conquistadors need …
The Burden of the Past: Memories, Resistance and Existence in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses
The act of remembering a traumatic past has become one of the strategies for Palestinians to counter-assert settler colonial efforts denying Palestinians the right of return and obstructing their reclamation of memory. I examine the poetics of memories and the politics of representations in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses (2017). These novels present memory, whether individual or collective, as a non-violent…
The Palestinian Re-experience of Historical Violence: “A Wound Never Completely Scabbed Over”
This paper explores the pitfalls of applying trauma theory to Palestinian American literature without considering the nuances of this group’s experience both in the United States and abroad. In the two Palestinian American novels Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses (2017), the aesthetic renderings of memories illustrate an ongoing tragedy manifested in the communal responsibility to remember catastrophic events …
Susan Darraj's The Inheritance of Exile: The Aesthetics of Deterritorialization and the Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in Standard English
Standard English is characterized by conventions, rules, and assumptions, yet many Arab-American writers, notably Suheir Hammad, Diana Abu-Jaber and Etel Adnan, have subverted this seemingly repressive medium by showing their ethnic and cultural specificities. In her short story collection The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly, Susan Darraj reworks Standard English by introducing linguistic deviations and cultural variations that se…
Claims of memory: Transgenerational traumas, fluid identities, and resistance in Hala Alyan'sSalt Houses
Displacement from one's homeland and the inability to return problematize definitions of diaspora, belonging, and identity. Palestinian American Hala Alyan's 2017 novel Salt Houses reconfigures these terms in its recapitulation of Palestinian history as traumatic memories. This article explores the importance of home both as private space, temporal or spatial, and as an embodiment of social texture and cultural identity. Trauma theory has been ch…
Claims of memory: Transgenerational traumas, fluid identities, and resistance in Hala Alyan'sSalt Houses
Displacement from one's homeland and the inability to return problematize definitions of diaspora, belonging, and identity. Palestinian American Hala Alyan's 2017 novel Salt Houses reconfigures these terms in its recapitulation of Palestinian history as traumatic memories. This article explores the importance of home both as private space, temporal or spatial, and as an embodiment of social texture and cultural identity. Trauma theory has been ch…
The Palestinian Re-experience of Historical Violence: “A Wound Never Completely Scabbed Over”
This paper explores the pitfalls of applying trauma theory to Palestinian American literature without considering the nuances of this group’s experience both in the United States and abroad. In the two Palestinian American novels Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses (2017), the aesthetic renderings of memories illustrate an ongoing tragedy manifested in the communal responsibility to remember catastrophic events …
Susan Darraj's The Inheritance of Exile: The Aesthetics of Deterritorialization and the Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in Standard English
Standard English is characterized by conventions, rules, and assumptions, yet many Arab-American writers, notably Suheir Hammad, Diana Abu-Jaber and Etel Adnan, have subverted this seemingly repressive medium by showing their ethnic and cultural specificities. In her short story collection The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly, Susan Darraj reworks Standard English by introducing linguistic deviations and cultural variations that se…
Claims of memory: Transgenerational traumas, fluid identities, and resistance in Hala Alyan'sSalt Houses
Displacement from one's homeland and the inability to return problematize definitions of diaspora, belonging, and identity. Palestinian American Hala Alyan's 2017 novel Salt Houses reconfigures these terms in its recapitulation of Palestinian history as traumatic memories. This article explores the importance of home both as private space, temporal or spatial, and as an embodiment of social texture and cultural identity. Trauma theory has been ch…
The Palestinian Re-experience of Historical Violence: “A Wound Never Completely Scabbed Over”
This paper explores the pitfalls of applying trauma theory to Palestinian American literature without considering the nuances of this group’s experience both in the United States and abroad. In the two Palestinian American novels Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses (2017), the aesthetic renderings of memories illustrate an ongoing tragedy manifested in the communal responsibility to remember catastrophic events …
The Burden of the Past: Memories, Resistance and Existence in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses
The act of remembering a traumatic past has become one of the strategies for Palestinians to counter-assert settler colonial efforts denying Palestinians the right of return and obstructing their reclamation of memory. I examine the poetics of memories and the politics of representations in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses (2017). These novels present memory, whether individual or collective, as a non-violent…
“Life in death”: Decolonizing Trauma in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer
This article examines the poetics of death in the Iraqi American writer Sinan Antoon’s novel The Corpse Washer. The novel depicts death as a leitmotif while emphasizing the perils of wars and violence on the Iraqi people. Throughout the novel, death is omnipresent, looming over the lives of the characters, particularly the protagonist Jawad who endures nightmares, hallucinations, and split personality. These conditions are engendered by prolonged…
Cross-cultural Romance: A Dialogic Evolution of Arab-Western Relations in Contemporary Arab Anglophone Women’s Literature
The current global landscape is characterised by transnationalism and diaspora, concepts that wield tools such as dialogism, heteroglossia, and the ““Unfinalisability”” of the self. In response to these transformative forces, a significant cohort of contemporary Arab Anglophone writers has embraced a dialogic paradigm. This article explores the artistic portrayal of Arab-Western relations through the literary works of two Arab Anglophone women wr…
The empire writes back: The Moor's Account 's decolonial appropriation of Cabeza de Vaca's La Relación
The article explores the aesthetic and stylistic strategies by which Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) decolonises Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s chronicle La Relación (1542) and hence writes back to the Spanish colonialism in the sixteenth century. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Panfilo de Narváez expedition to the New World centres on ‘peaceful conversion’, that is, the pacification of the natives so the Spanish conquistadors need …
The sea symbolism and the Palestinians’ traumatic memories of departure, displacement and death
Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account
This article explores the thematic and aesthetic depictions of the colonized in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) by extending the postcolonial theory of the subaltern. This Moroccan American novel reconstructs the colonial history of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest narrated in Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s 1542 Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition by giving voice to the slave Mustafa/Estebanico and other subaltern peoples, including …
Countering Palestinian nationalism and Zionist discourse with Palestinian resilience and resistance in Palestinian diasporic literature
Decolonizing the Blue Humanities: The Palestinian Journey of Displacement, Expulsion and Homelessness in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water
Oceanic and riverine spaces, represented by the River Suqreir and the Gaza Sea in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water , symbolize identity formation, life, freedom, and the Palestinian connection to the homeland. However, these waterscapes are marred by the violence of occupation, turning these aquatic areas into reminders of death, loss, and trauma. This article examines Abulhawa’s creative renditions of the River Suqreir and the Gaz…
Art (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (4 works) · Politics (4 works)