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Memory, Trauma, and the "Implicated Subject" of the War On Terror In Laila Lalami's The Other Americans
- Studies in the Novel
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 53, Number 1, Spring 2021
- pp. 36-53
- 10.1353/sdn.2021.0003
- Article
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Abstract
ABSTRACT:
This paper examines Laila Lalami's The Other Americans (2019) as a post 9/11 novel that records long-term effects of 9/11 and its aftermath on the lives of Arab Americans. Simultaneously capturing the effects of the War on Terror at home and abroad, Lalami offers a representation of traumatic events beyond the binaristic frame of victims and perpetrators. While focusing on post 9/11 racialization of Arabs in the US and the US-led War on Terror, Lalami depicts some Arab Americans as "implicated" in these patterns of violence and injustice. The novel simultaneously deconstructs binaries of guilt and innocence in intimate family events as well as events in the public sphere.
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