In this paper, I have made an attempt to examine Suad Amiry’s Golda Slept Here (2014) through the intersecting lenses of memory studies, postcolonial theory and material culture scholarship. The central argument holds that the Palestinian house functions as a “counter-archive” to settler-colonial erasure. Moving beyond official state archives and nationalist historiography, the narrative foregrounds walls, rooms, domestic objects and architectural remnants as repositories of lived history. Drawing upon Marianne Hirsch’s framework of postmemory, Pierre Nora’s concept of lieux de mémoire and recent interventions in new materialism and thing theory, I contend that the text reactivates inherited trauma through the spatial/material traces embedded within domestic structures, thereby positioning the home as a site of enduring political and historical witness.

Received 05 April 2026. Revised 17 May 2026. Accepted 30 May 2026. Published online 06 July 2026

Counter-archive, Palestinian literature, Postmemory, Materiality, Trau-ma, Identity,