Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Hoda Yazdan ¹
• Hosein Abavisani ²
• Hooman Nazemian ³
• Ali Pirani Shal ¹
• Fatemeh parchekani ⁴

¹ Arabic Language, and Literature, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

² Member of the Faculty of Arabic Language and Literature Department of Khwarazmi University

³ Associate Professor, Arabic Language, and Literature, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ 5. Associate Professor, Arabic Language, and Literature, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Collective memory emerges from the dynamic interplay between remembering and forgetting within a community or social group. Since the colonizer in post-colonial societies seeks to erase and manipulate the collective memory of the indigenous population, it has become necessary to study the functions of collective memory as an act of resistance. Since the colonizer in post-colonial societies seeks to erase and manipulate the collective memory of the indigenous population, it has become necessary to study the functions of collective memory as an act of resistance. This research, through examines the role of collective memory in constructing the identity of the colonized and reviving their history and marginalized voice, because this narrative, as an alternative archive, reveals the gap between official history and colonial memory. Based on the theories put forward in the field of collective memory and the study of the narrative in a descriptive-analytical style, the researchers of the study concluded that the main character in the story, through recording the experiences of the previous generation of memories of captivity in the ghetto, seeks to revive marginalized narratives by questioning official history. But colonialism uses many methods to suppress the collective memory of the colonized, such as cultural assimilation, the abandonment of the credibility of the colonized historical narrative, cultural theft, the imposition of an artificial collective memory by the colonizer, and the use of the capabilities of the visual arts, such as filmmaking.

Keywords

• Post-colonialism, Palestine, collective memory, Elias Khoury, Novel "
• Children of the Ghetto My Name is Adam"

Main Subjects

• الادب المقارن