ABSTRACT

People’s attitudes toward illness and disability are a product of how they are informed culturally. Most studies on disability offer quantitative views and apply Western disability models. In this paper, through a series of invoked conversations (morphed into poems) with my Palestinian maternal grandmother and my mother, I examine the concepts of resilience, survival, and historical trauma. By using autoethnography and poetic inquiry, I consider the impact of the Gulf War on Palestinian families and treat survival as a tool informed by Palestinian resilience. Circling back to the attitudes of disability, the disability war metaphor has indeed become real. Rather than dismissing disability metaphors as ableist and harmful, taking due account of the situation of cultural attitudes toward disability and resilience is necessary in Global Disability Studies.

摘要

人们对疾病和残疾的态度是他们如何了解文化的产物。大多数关于残疾的研究都提供定量观点并应用西方残疾模型。在本文中，通过与我的巴勒斯坦外祖母和我母亲的一系列援引对话（变成诗歌），我审视了复原力、生存和历史创伤的概念。通过使用自我民族志和诗意探究，我考虑了海湾战争对巴勒斯坦家庭的影响，并将生存视为巴勒斯坦复原力所提供的工具。回到对残疾的态度，残疾战争的比喻确实成为了现实。而不是将残疾隐喻视为有能力的和有害的，