And like with poetry, all analysis only makes it worse. For, the suicide bomber is the poet par excellence, reminding us of the possibility of an event not because of the effects of her actions, but due to the gift of her life, and more importantly the unknowability that is her death. It is a brilliant study about the blank spot within the becoming of teleology, and the game of 'finitude'." -Hubertus von Amelunxen This book is an attempt to defend the undefendable: the suicide bomber as a figure of thinking, a figure that foregrounds the singularity of each event and it is this un-understandability-which is part of understanding itself-that the suicide bomber never lets us forget. "Jeremy Fernando's The Suicide-Bomber and her gift of death calls for the ability to respond to intentional death. The corpse of the martyr is transformed into the corpus of martyr's speeches and images that are disseminated by the audience who bear witness to the acts of martyrdom. I argue that the end of the martyr's speech marks out her silence and her transformation into an icon of resistance, heroism and sacrifice. The audience, who bears witness to the martyr, is necessary for martyrdom to be recognised and to take place. The act of martyrdom is a collective one, involving the martyr, the agent of narration and the audience. Palestinian female martyrs are also witnesses to Arab leaders' weakness and their inability to defend Palestine. I contend that the female martyr is a witness to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and to the oppression and dehumanisation to which Palestinians are subject. This study, which focuses on Palestinian female martyrs' video-testimonies, investigates the elusive relationship between martyrdom and witness. The findings of this study suggest that women’s feeling of taking revenge from the ones their families and relatives were injured, tortured and/or prisoned by, the idea of martyrdom, and the male oppression that does not let them do the things they want in this life are the motivations of the women suicide bombers living in the Middle East.ĭuring the second Intifada which started in 2000 and ended sometime in mid 2000s, Palestinian male and female martyrs used video testimonies, records and documents of death, using the first person pronoun so as to articulate their missions and justifications for carrying out their acts of martyrdom. It was argued in this paper that gender plays a big role in the play, and from a feminist perspective, women in the Israeli and Palestinian society are oppressed and dehumanized by the government policies and the social constructions such as the family dynamics, and these social and political factors motivate women to become suicide bombers. This paper deals with the motivations of these women suicide bombers through the character Layla, who is an Arab-Muslim Palestinian woman, in the play Desert Sunrise by Misha Shulman. In these attacks that were usually carried out by men, women suicide bombers have started to be used widely since they are less conspicuous than men. Suicide attacks, which generally aim at killing a person or a group, or simply civilians, are one of the most widespread and dangerous terrorist attacks in the world.
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