Repression and Reclaiming of Female Voices of War History through Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail
Dola Saha
University of Liverpool, UK
chinisaha9983@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1932-1815
Abstract
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail (2017) explores the themes of silencing and marginalising the voices of women in the occupied land of Palestine. The novel juxtaposes a story of brutal rape and murder during the Nakba, with an investigation of another woman to uncover the truth. The novel portrays the female body as a site of domination portraying the socio-cultural norms of excluding women’s experiences from historical narratives. Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak, Dubravka Zarkov, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, the paper analyses the double marginalisation of women’s voice by political power and social norms. It simultaneously will reflect on how the author challenges such norms through the narrative strategies such as minor symbolism, specific narrative decisions, and spectral motifs. Through the novel, the author enacts on using literature as a resistance to reclaim subaltern voices and experiences, challenging historical erasure of suffering and memory of women.
Keywords: Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail, female body, history, resistance, reclaiming voice, Marginalisation, women in war, violence
How to Cite this Paper :
Saha, D. (2026). Repression and Reclaiming of Female Voices of War History through Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail. Atras Journal, 7 (1), 356-364.
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