Trauma, Memory And Broken Chronology In Adania Shibli's Minor Detail

Abstract

It would be less difficult to stay far from meddling with the riddles of past events. And yet to do so would be to miss the chance of grasping history. Trauma, memory and time have always been a nest for scholarly interest. Even the most sophisticated of trauma critics acknowledge the paradoxes of memory and time vis-à-vis the study of the unconscious mind. Adania Shibli's Minor Detail (2017) is a reflective literary product which cajoles the reader with equivocal perceptions over the complex perpetuity of traumatic memory. The latter largely covers the notion of time insofar as it symbolizes a timeless phenomenon that transcends the confines of chronology, and serves the purpose of healing the bleeding of both the unconscious mind and the history. Under these disturbing questions, the present article seeks to examine how Nakba symbolizes not only a past event, but also a collective trauma that continues into the present.