Memory, Home and Belonging in Nada Awar Jarrarꞌs.Somewhere, Home
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2023-06
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université mohamed boudiaf .m'sila
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Nada Awar Jarrar's Somewhere, Home shows the unresolved, agonizing impacts of war and displacement on the unique memories of Jarrar's female characters. It offers an unconventional translation of common women's psyches. These women feel that the outside world, rather than them, determines the course of their lives. In this way, Jarrar exemplifies the Lebanese female writers who avoid the overt depiction of war violence that the majority of their male counterparts do in favor of investigating the less overt psychological dimensions of war through three female protagonists, each of whom is given a voice in one of the novel's three sections. Aside from the earlier psychological disorders, Jarrar addresses the attachments to the 'home' country that are at the heart of the novel's sentimental memories. In this study, the researcher demonstrates that the protagonists' nostalgic memories do not depict the actual past but rather the tensions of the present and their attempts to escape them.
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Keyword: displacement; memories; fragmented; identity; war; nostalgic