This article argues that Ghassan Kanafani in his 1969 work Returning to Haifa portrays a new conception of home as a postcolonial site that transcends the physicality of geography to create a new collective fluid memory. Kanafani’s narrative explores the chasm between the imaginary or utopian territory that exists simply in the memory of the indigenous people, and the real site which exists geographically, and how this makes ethical representation of the traumatised subject virtually impossible/an impossibility. Kanafani’s allegorical journey of Returning to Haifa records the bruised memory of the Palestinian refugees, and reveals a desire to recreate a protean memory for this traumatised people so as to transform them from the state of victimhood to that of resistance. Hence, the three physical sites explored here: body, land and text are opened to the processes of becoming.

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Ghassan Kanafani's Returning to Haifa: 在瓦砾之外追踪记忆

本文认为，加桑·卡纳法​​尼 (Ghassan Kanafani) 在其 1969 年的作品《重返海法》(Returning to Haifa) 中描绘了一种新的家园概念，即一个超越地理物理性以创造新的集体流动记忆的后殖民遗址。卡纳法尼的叙述探索了仅存在于土著人民记忆中的想象或乌托邦领土与地理上存在的真实地点之间的鸿沟，以及这如何使受创伤主体的伦理再现几乎不可能/不可能。卡纳法尼返回海法的寓言之旅记录了巴勒斯坦难民的创伤记忆，并揭示了为这些受创伤的人们重建多变记忆的愿望，以便将他们从受害状态转变为抵抗状态。因此，这里探索的三个物理位置：身体、