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This paper explores the pitfalls of applying trauma theory to Palestinian American literature without considering the nuances of this group’s experience both in the United States and abroad. In the two Palestinian American novels Susan Abulhawa’s  Mornings in Jenin  (2010) and Hala Alyan’s  Salt Houses  (2017), the aesthetic renderings of memories illustrate an ongoing tragedy manifested in the communal responsibility to remember catastrophic events such as the 1948 War known as the  Nakba  and their subsequent events. This act of remembering a traumatic past synchronises with wars, violence, land confiscation and living in diaspora. I argue that trauma theory should attend to both individual and collective Palestinian memory in these novels to understand the characters’ psychological ailment, not only as a persistent memory, which is interrupted by reminders of a traumatic past, but also as an ongoing re-experience of a historical violence started during the  Nakba  that continues to affect many Palestinians in the present.

The Palestinian Re-experience of Historical Violence: “A Wound Never Completely Scabbed Over”