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No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine
No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine
No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine
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No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine

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Westerners '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.

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Release dateJun 10, 2016
ISBN9780812292886
No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine
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Lotte Buch Segal

Lotte Buch Segal is Lecturer on Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

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