No Place for Grief : Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine / Lotte Buch Segal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buch Segal, Lotte, Author.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence.

The Ethnography of Political Violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Palestinian Arab--Palestine--Social conditions.

Women, Palestinian Arab.

Women, Palestinian Arab--Palestine--Psychology.

Prisoners' spouses--Palestine--Social conditions.

Prisoners' spouses.

Prisoners' spouses--Palestine--Psychology.

Loss (Psychology).

Grief--Political aspects--Palestine.

Grief.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Psychological aspects.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Military occupation--Psychological aspects.

Military occupation.

Middle East--Palestine.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Westerners 'know' Palestine through images of war and people in immediate distress. Yet this focus has as its consequence that other, less spectacular stories of daily distress are rarely told. Those seldom noticed are the women behind the men who engage in armed resistance against the military occupation: wives of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention and the widows of the martyrs. In Palestine, being related to a detainee serving a sentence for participation in the resistance activities against Israel is a source of pride. Consequently, the wives of detainees are expected to sustain these relationships through steadfast endurance, no matter the effects upon the marriage or family. Often people, media, and academic studies address the dramatic violence and direct affliction of the Palestinians. Lotte Buch Segal takes a different approach, and offers a glimpse of the lives, and the contradictory emotions, of the families of both detainees and martyrs through an in-depth ethnographic investigation. No Place for Grief asks us to think about what it means to grieve when that which is grieved does not lend itself to a language of loss and mourning. What does it mean to "endure" when ordinary life is engulfed by the emotional labor required to withstand the pressures placed on Palestinian families by sustained imprisonment and bereavement? Despite an elaborate repertoire of narrative styles, laments, poetry, and performance of bodily gestures through which mourning can be articulated, including the mourning tied to a political cause, Buch Segal contends that these forms of expression are inadequate to the sorrow endured by detainees' wives. No Place for Grief reveals a new language that describes the entanglement of absence and intimacy, endurance and everyday life, and advances an understanding of loss, mourning, and grief in contemporary Palestine.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Grammar of Suffering in Occupied Palestine

Chapter 2. Domestic Uncanniness

Chapter 3. Enduring Presents

Chapter 4. On Hardship and Closeness

Chapter 5. Solitude in Marriage

Chapter 6. Enduring the Ordinary

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780812292886

081229288X

OCLC:

951807877