الذات المصدومة في حملة تفتيش، أوراق شخصيّة للطيفة الزيّات ورأيتُ رام الله لمريد البرغوثي -

Abstract

تعالج هذه الرسالة بنية الذات المصدومة في السيرة الذاتيّة، كجنس أدبيٍّ، في أواخر القرن العشرين. وذلك من خلال تناول نموذجَيْن من نماذج السِيَر الذاتية، هما حملة تفتيش: أوراق شخصيّة (1992) لـلطيفة الزيّات (1923-1966)؛ ورأيتُ رام الله (1998) لـمريد البرغوثي (1944). وتكمُن إشكاليّة البحث في محاولة التعرّف على ملامح الذات المستعادة في السيرتَين المتناولتَين من جهة علاقت[u0647

This thesis proposes an integrative approach to explore the configuration of the fragmented self in two autobiographies in modern Arabic literature, The Search: Personal Papers by Latifa Zayyat (1992) and I saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti (1998). As both autobiographies are retrospective narrations of personal lives, this paper will trace the structure of the autobiographical memory in relation to the narrators’ experience of trauma and the latter’s repercussions on memory and the representation of the self. In these historically situated autobiographies, several stories recollected from individual, gender-based and collective memories come together. I argue that both narrators, Latifa Zayyat and Murid Barghuthi, recount shared traumatic experiences, including the downfall of the national movements, the Arab defeat in The Six-Day War of 1967, and Neocolonialism. While exploring the discourses of memory, some distinctions need to be made between the narrators of I Saw Ramallah and The Search. In I Saw Ramallah the self suffers from fragmentation and enstrangement in exile, while the self in The Search suffers from fragmentation and enstrangement in her motherland. Moreover while both are marginalized voices, gender plays a significant role in shaping the narration. The narrator Latifa Zayyat welcomes her fragmentation and sees in it a path to freedom, which she finds in jail, “out of place;” on the other hand, the other narrator Murid Barghuthi continues his search for his inner “lack”.