The murdered children of Gaza are rhetorically re-embodied in the diaspora.

Evidence

Those nameless children the Israelis just massacred in Gaza—we have bred them back here in America. We joggle, we dodge, we hide, we come back. Millions and millions more Palestinian children have poured dancing into the sea from the shores of Gaza, and they are sailing—see the masts of their boats! They are coming. They are coming home. Welcome to America! Welcome home! — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 655

Categorization

• SHARE: A striking rhetorical move — a mourning that refuses finality by imagining the dead returning as the diaspora’s own children.