Nakba

Nakba Palestine, 1948, and the claims of memory / [electronic resource] : edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di & Lila Abu-Lughod. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. - xii, 356 p. : ill., maps. - Cultures of history . - Cultures of history. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-337) and index.

Introduction : the claims of memory / Lila Abu-Lughod and Ahmad H. Sadi -- Places of memory. The rape of Qula, a destroyed Palestinian village / Susan Slyomovics -- Mapping the past, recreating the homeland : memories of village places in pre-1948 Palestine / Rochelle Davis -- Return to half-ruins: memory, postmemory, and living history in Palestine / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Modes of memory. Iterability, cumulativity and presence : the relational figures of Palestinian memory / Lena Jayyusi -- Women's nakba stories : between being and knowing / Rosemary Sayigh -- The continuity of trauma and struggle : recent cinematic representations of the nakba / Haim Bresheeth -- Faultlines of memory : The secret visitations of memory / Omar Al-Qattan -- Gender of nakba memory / Isabelle Humphries and Laleh Khalili -- Memories of conquest : witnessing death in Tantura / Samera Esmeir -- The politics of witness : remembering and forgetting 1948 in Shatila camp / Diana Keown Allan -- Afterword : reflections on representations, history, and moral accountability / Ahmad Sadi.


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Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Personal narratives, Palestinian.
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Historiography.
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Influence.
Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Biography.
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Atrocities.
Disasters--Psychological aspects.
Collective memory--Palestine.


Electronic books.

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