Blood and Tears in the Mirror of Memory

Liana Badr's The Eye of the Mirror explores the historical trauma of the 1975-6 siege of the Palestinian refugee camp Tal el-Zaatar in Beirut and the massacre of thousands of its inhabitants by Christian militias. Analogous to Holocaust writing, Badr's fictionalized history, grounded in actual survivor testimonies, enacts a complex politics of cultural memory, but does so from a specifically female perspective. Collapsing the personal and political, private and public, inside and outside through figured violations of bodies and psyches, Badr repositions women at the centre of the Palestinians' struggle for and story of survival. Badr's novel traces the annihilation of the possibility of address, accompanied by self-loss and the ability to witness, and the laborious recreation of address. Claiming authority on the basis of the emotional, visceral truth of suffering, she seeks to break the endless cycle of an oppressive and impotent masculine history, constructing an alternative history which at least attempts to address the voice of cultural, national, and gender difference

Historical trauma · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · The Holocaust · Witness · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Middle East Politics and Society · Psychology

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