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Title Nakba : Palestine, 1948, and the claims of memory / edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di & Lila Abu-Lughod.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  956.042 N145 2007    ---  Available
Description xii, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Series Cultures of history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-337) and index.
Contents Introduction : The claims of memory / Lila Abu-Lughod, 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, 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.
Subject Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Personal narratives, Palestinian Arab.
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.
Added Author Sa'di, Ahmad H., 1958-
Abu-Lughod, Lila.
ISBN 0231135793 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231135795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231135785 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231135788 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2509237
YDXCP 2509238
NLGGC 302388907
AU@ 000040739643

 
    
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