Mornings In Jenin Analysis

In Mornings in Jenin, Susan Abulhawa tries to stretch a historical account of what happened in Palestine over the last sixty years, in doing so, she makes clear that trauma is omnipresent in the everyday Palestinian life, and thus only confirms what Lindsey Moore and Ahmad Qabaha stated in the epigraph used in this chapter that: “In the Palestinian case, trauma persists and repeats in reality, [. . .] trauma is mundane, material, quotidian, repeated and eminently repeatable?” to put it differently, Palestinians have been trapped in cyclic trauma since 1948. The history of 1948 that Abulhawa tries to bring to the fore in her narrative constitutes the origin of the different traumas that her characters experience.
Victims of historical trauma