The act of remembering a traumatic past has become one of the strategies for Palestinians to counter-assert settler colonial efforts denying Palestinians the right of return and obstructing their reclamation of memory. I examine the poetics of memories and the politics of representations in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses (2017). These novels present memory, whether individual or collective, as a non-violent resistance against the oppressor and an affirmation of the Palestinian national identity. Although Palestinian memories are characterized by compulsion to repeat, I argue this compulsive return goes beyond the psychodynamics of remembering purported by trauma theory, and includes moral, political and ethical responsibilities. Reading Palestinian literature in line with trauma theory decolonizes the theory and extends its analysis to events happening in the global South.

缅怀创伤性过去的行为已成为巴勒斯坦人反驳定居者殖民者否认巴勒斯坦人返回权利和阻碍他们恢复记忆的策略之一。我在 Susan Abulhawa 的《杰宁的早晨》（2010 年）和 Hala Alyan 的《盐屋》（2017 年）中研究了记忆的诗学和表征的政治。这些小说将记忆，无论是个人的还是集体的，呈现为对压迫者的非暴力抵抗和对巴勒斯坦民族身份的肯定。尽管巴勒斯坦记忆的特点是强迫性重复，但我认为这种强迫性回归超出了创伤理论所声称的记忆的心理动力学，包括道德、政治和伦理责任。.