Recounting Memories of Resistance in 33 Days

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ID11660983
AutoresSyrine Hout (autor correspondente), Syrine Hout Syrine Hout
Ano2016
Volume38
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArab Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0271-3519 • E-ISSN: 2043-6920
EditoraPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/arabstudquar.38.2.0481
OpenAlexW2345062386
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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