مجلة البحوث و الدراسات الإنسانية
Volume 19, Numéro 1, Pages 900-919
2025-07-30
Singular And Collective Resistance: Memory, Space, And Revolutionary Becoming In Susan Abulhawa’s Against The Loveless World (2020)
Authors : Halem Asma .
Abstract
The Zionist myth of “a land without people for a people without a land” and the biblical narrative of “chosen people in the promised land” have fed biopolitical, disciplinary, and necropolitical policies aimed at the institutional erasure of Palestinian bodies, memory, and history. As a fundamental tool of liberation, resistance literature, or ‘adab al-muqawama’ emerged to claim justice for Palestinians and safeguard their right to memory, land, and heritage. This paper explores how Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World (2020) constructs sumud (steadfastness) and resistance as both an individual and a collective act. The novel foregrounds the gendered dimensions of life under Zionist biopolitical violence and socio-patriarchal control. It traces the journey of Nahr, the protagonist, across numerous sites of displacement highlighting her relentless steadfastness which has been cultivated and sustained by the network of solidarity around her as well as her connection to the ancestral land of Palestine. Following Moulard-Leonard’s (2005) Deleuzian reading of Fanon and Meari (2014) theorizations of sumud as a relational practice, this paper employs a close reading of the novel alongside Deleuzian becoming-minoritarian. It examine how the novel, as a counter-narrative, transforms storytelling into a material practice that reconfigures subjectivity and space. The practice of sumud enables the deterritorialization and subversion of dominant settler-colonial powers, enacting a minor politics in which personal struggles become inseparable from the collective movements toward liberation.
Keywords
Palestinian Literature ; Sumud ; Resistance ; Susan Abulhawa; biopolitics; Becoming Revolutionary
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