Remembering the Disremembered

9/11 And Traumatic Memory in Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s “The Book of Remembered Things

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ID6091210
AutoresRogers Asempasah (0000-0003-1272-1211, University of Cape Coast Department of English, College of Humanities and Legal Studies Cape Coast Ghana, autor correspondente), Samuel Papa Arthur (0000-0003-0616-6960, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Department of English https://dx.doi.org/1177 Ames, IA USA)
Ano2024
Volume55
Fascículo2
Páginas332-357
Data de publicação2024-10-22
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMatatu (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0932-9714 • E-ISSN: 1875-7421
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/18757421-bja00015
OpenAlexW4403701781
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas19

This article reads Abubakar Ibrahim’s short story “The Book of Remembered Things” as an anti-jihadist narrative that meditates on the traumatic effects of violent jihadism on the postcolonial Muslim domestic space and a counternarrative to the dominant body of Western fictional responses to the 9/11 terror attacks. Situated at the intersection of Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and postcolonial trauma theory, the article argues that Ibrahim mourns and remembers the traumas of the disremembered postcolonial subaltern African Muslim woman elided in the dominant discourses on the WoT and also subtly critiques fundamentalists ideologies like Boko Haram. Ibrahim shows that Jihadists’ quest for an Islamic theocracy or caliphate is doomed to fail because it revolves around a sacrificial structure wherein the Muslin woman is sacrificed on the altar of ideological incoherence. By focusing on the nexus between WoT and gendered trauma, the article explores how Ibrahim reclaims the subaltern woman’s voice in the wake of violent jihadism

African studies · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Race, History, and American Society