"Suspect Belongings": The Traitor as a Figure of Betrayal in Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie-Rose

In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose writes, "As far as nationhood is concerned, flesh and blood - or in Freud's formula 'blood and nerves' is a suspect form of belonging" (22). As fresh cycles of violence erupt with deeper and darker understandings of who belongs where i...

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Published inWomen's studies Vol. 51; no. 5; pp. 575 - 596
Main Author Manuratne, Salwatura A. Prabha
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Routledge 04.07.2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Blood
Genealogy
Greek literature
Literary criticism
Nerves
Resistance
Statehood
Violence
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Summary:In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose writes, "As far as nationhood is concerned, flesh and blood - or in Freud's formula 'blood and nerves' is a suspect form of belonging" (22). As fresh cycles of violence erupt with deeper and darker understandings of who belongs where in a world in which vast swathes of people live as stateless or exiled people, the forms of belonging to the nation, the group, or the clan have become ever more suspect. In this study, the central figure for this suspect form of belonging is the traitor. While several other critics have examined the way belonging is shaped through the idea of filiation proposed by Edward Said, this study examines belonging through the figure of the traitor. For Barbara Harlow, the "passage from genealogical or hereditary ties of filiation to the collective bonds of affiliation" (116) is a characteristic of resistance narratives.
ISSN:0049-7878
1547-7045
DOI:10.1080/00497878.2022.2070750