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Catastrophe and exile in the modern Palestinian imagination : telling memories
- Title
- Catastrophe and exile in the modern Palestinian imagination : telling memories / Ihab Saloul.
- Author
- Saloul, Ihab.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- 259 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
- Uniform Title
- Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.
- Subjects
- Arab-Israeli conflict > Motion pictures and the conflict
- Exile (Punishment) in literature
- Collective memory > Palestine
- Memory in literature
- Arab-Israeli conflict > Literature and the conflict
- Arabic fiction > Palestine > History and criticism
- Arab-Israeli conflict > Personal narratives, Palestinian Arab
- Nostalgia in literature
- Arabic fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Palestine > In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Nostalgic memory and Palestinian identification. Nostalgia and Trauma -- The Sea: Lovers' Escape and Vicious Dogs -- Mr. Palestine: The Past Between Truth and Lie -- Nostalgia for Jerusalem -- From Nostalgia to Active Memory That Remains -- Memorization, Exile and Nostalgic Identification -- Traveling theory: on the balconies of our houses in exile. Forced Departures and Narrative Imagings -- Ghurba: Beyond Metaphorization of Palestinian Exile -- From Nostalgic to Critical Memory of Loss -- The Everyday of Exile: Murder in the Museum -- Fragmented Imagings: Beyond Geography -- Our Mothers Mourn in Black -- Fragmented Imagings, Fragmented Lives -- The Canary and the Sea: Othering in Exile -- Exilic narrativity: audiovisual storytelling and memory. Exile Beyond Fiction and Documentary Divide -- The Void of Exile: By Way of Showing -- Loss as a Geopolitical Discontinuity: By Way of Telling -- Palestinian Time-Space Beyond Tragedy -- The performance of catastrophe and Palestinian identity. Performative Narrativity: Exposing the Betrayal of Time -- Exile of Body and Mind -- Performing Palestinian and Israeli "We" in the "Aftermath" -- The Everyday: Self, Others, and Exile -- Mankoub: Narrative fragments of an ongoing catastrophe. Ethnography as Narrative -- De-Palestinianized -- The Jewish Train Simply Did Not Skid -- Catastrophic Time: Palestinian Roots Do Not Die -- Palestinian Identity Beyond the Post-Memory of Nakba -- Afterword: telling memories in a time of catastrophe
- Call Number
- JFD 12-6444
- ISBN
- 9781137001375 (hc.)
- 1137001372 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2012011356
- OCLC
- 759175580
- Author
- Saloul, Ihab.
- Title
- Catastrophe and exile in the modern Palestinian imagination : telling memories / Ihab Saloul.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Literatures and cultures of the Islamic worldLiteratures and cultures of the Islamic world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-6444