Mirrored LossPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190917289.003.0004
G. vom Bruck
{"title":"Ruptures","authors":"G. vom Bruck","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190917289.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917289.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Pursuing a relational approach, Part II tells the story of Amat al-Latif’s childhood and early adult life in an elite household viewed through the prism of her intimate relationship with her father. Amat al-Latif’s narrative explains how the momentous events of 1948 – her father’s arrest, the collapse of the constitutional government, the sack of her city, house demolition ‒ have impacted upon her life’s trajectories, above all the loss of close relatives to disease and execution, early marriage and dispossession after the failed revolt. It dwells on the precariousness of everyday life in the aftermath of her family’s downfall and women’s exposure to destitution, and the ways in which she has dealt with violent bereavement. Amat al-Latif also had to deal with her husband’s father’s overbearing wife in her patrilocal household, refusing to subordinate herself to her. However, instead of employing the trope of resistance, it is argued that women’s noncompliance is frequently articulated within existing socio-cultural norms rather than the expression of an oppositional subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":340515,"journal":{"name":"Mirrored Loss","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130565820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mirrored LossPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190917289.003.0002
Gabriele vom Bruck
{"title":"The Rise and Fall of the Constitutional Movement","authors":"Gabriele vom Bruck","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190917289.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190917289.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter sketches the consolidation of the imamate since the departure of the Ottomans from Yemen in 1918-19, and the formation of an opposition movement against the autocratic rule of Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din in the 1930s and 40s. It highlights ‘Abdullah al-Wazir’s career as the prime negotiator and signatory of the Treaty of Ta’if following the first Saudi-Yemeni war in 1934 and as the supreme leader (Imam) of the embryonic constitutional imamate in 1948. Dealing with key data such as the failure of the constitutional revolt and ‘Abdullah al-Wazir’s and Amat al-Latif’s husband’s execution, this chapter provides the backdrop against which the following ones become intelligible.","PeriodicalId":340515,"journal":{"name":"Mirrored Loss","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125046788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mirrored LossPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190917289.003.0005
G. vom Bruck
{"title":"Displacements","authors":"G. vom Bruck","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190917289.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917289.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"“Displacements” centers on Amat al-Latif’s endeavor to remake her world with her second husband in Beirut and Amman where they raised their three children. However, a couple of decades after having suffered grievous loss her life became overshadowed by her husband’s marriage to another woman. This part of the book includes her account of her mental torment and conflicting emotions after being confronted with a fait accompli she had dreaded all her life. It also deals with her children’s subject-positions vis-à-vis their father’s taking a second wife. Their mother’s narrative negotiates the disparities between men’s and women’s ethical reasoning and practice, offering insights into the gender dynamic of multiple concurrent marriages. In the United States, where the family settled at last, Amat al-Latif also had to endure her beloved full-brother’s terminal illness.","PeriodicalId":340515,"journal":{"name":"Mirrored Loss","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124931946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}