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

Contributor(s): Sa'di, Ahmad H, 1958- | Abu-Lughod, Lila
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2007.Description: xii, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0231135785; 0231135793 (pbk); 9780231135795 (pbk); 0231509707 (ebk)DDC classification: 956.04/2
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Class number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item reservations
Book Book British Museum
Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KWG [SA'D-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L80720
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Includes bibliographical references 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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