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100 _aSegal, Lotte Buch
245 _aNo place for grief :
_bmartyrs, prisoners, and mourning in contemporary palestine
_cby Lotte Buch Segal
260 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c©2016
300 _ax, 211 p. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _tChapter 1. The Grammar of Suffering in Occupied Palestine
505 _tChapter 2. Domestic Uncanniness
505 _tChapter 3. Enduring Presents
505 _tChapter 4. On Hardship and Closeness
505 _tChapter 5. Solitude in Marriage
505 _tChapter 6. Enduring the Ordinary
520 _aWesterners '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.
650 _aSocial Science -- Discrimination & Race Relations
650 _aPalestiniennes -- Palestine -- Conditions sociales
650 _aMiddle Eastern Studies
650 _aMilitary occupation -- Psychological aspects
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