نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
استادیار زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی دانشگاه زنجان- ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
This paper examines the radical disruption of temporality in Mosab Abu Toha’s two poetry collections, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza (City Lights, 2022) and Forest of Noise (Knopf, 2024). Drawing on Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory, Cathy Caruth’s theory of trauma as unclaimed experience, Mark Fisher’s notion of the cancelled future (adapted to settler-colonial conditions), and Ann Cvetkovich’s framework of trauma as an archive of feelings, the paper argues that Abu Toha constructs a poetics in which past, present, and future collapse into one another under conditions of siege, bombardment, and dispossession. Children are born into inherited catastrophe, the dead remain more present than the living, and the future is repeatedly foreclosed. Yet the poems’ very existence insists on a counter-temporality of survival, continuity, and resistance. Through close readings of poems across both collections, the paper traces four interlocking temporal structures: prenatal trauma, childhood as war-time, the paradoxical persistence of the ancestral dead, and the foreclosure and reopening of futurity. The paper concludes that Abu Toha’s poetry reveals how colonial violence operates as temporal dispossession, while poetic form becomes a means of reclaiming time.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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