The trauma of a woman's words of war.
The trauma of a woman's words of war.
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女人的战争话语造成的创伤。
DOI:
10.1016/s2468-2667(19)30146-x
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发表时间:
2019
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Ahmad A
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Ahmad A
War is a silencing shroud. In Afghanistan, the Taliban banned women from writing and reciting poetry, limiting spaces for women’s voices; but for Afghan women, poetry is a sword1 and women have fought to fulfil their rich literary heritage. Nadia Anjuman, a poet from Herat, Afghanistan, revealed the oppression of Afghan women through her words, which are now her legacy following her murder in 2005, for supposedly bringing disgrace on her family through her poetry. 2 Women as storytellers of suffering are the epitome for understanding the lived spaces of war. Yet, even academic research reinforces the silencing of a woman’s words in war. 3 Stories become part of medical apparatus and pathologised. Lives are reduced to prevalence figures, which are then translated into reports such as the WHO’s recent urgent call to address mental health needs in conflict. 3 Health responses focus on generating adequate data for the consequences of conflict. Yet, where are the stories of women who are suffering; why are these storytellers absent? We need brave researchers to receive such stories and share the suffering that is being endured as a way to deconstruct silencing, especially to health professionals.Words and silence are weaponised in war, meaning that a woman’s story is silenced because of what she has the power to reveal, but she is never silent; stories are living breathing vessels of the self and surrounding world. We need to create spaces for women’s stories of suffering to understand the traumas of war. Storytelling is an integral part of healing. 4 We have developed a therapeutic intervention for trauma using storytellingto support the mental health of women who have experienced gender-based violence. As researchers, we must see beyond the structures of silencing because no