Claims of memory: Transgenerational traumas, fluid identities, and resistance in Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses
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DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2020.1755718
Abstract: ABSTRACT 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… read more here.
Keywords: transgenerational traumas; salt houses; salt; claims memory ... See more keywords