Nakba
Subtitle: Palestine, 1948, and the claims of memory
By: edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di & Lila Abu-Lughod.
Contributors: Sa'di, Ahmad H., 1958-; Abu-Lughod, Lila.
Series: Cultures of history
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780231135788; 9780231135795; 9780231509701
Subjects: 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
Genres: Personal narratives, Palestinian Arab.; Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the claims of memory / Lila Abu-Lughod and Ahmad H. Sadi; title: Places of memory. The rape of Qula, a destroyed Palestinian village / Susan Slyomovics; title: Mapping the past, recreating the homeland : memories of village places in pre-1948 Palestine / Rochelle Davis; title: Return to half-ruins: memory, postmemory, and living history in Palestine / Lila Abu-Lughod; title: Modes of memory. Iterability, cumulativity and presence : the relational figures of Palestinian memory / Lena Jayyusi; title: Women's nakba stories : between being and knowing / Rosemary Sayigh; title: The continuity of trauma and struggle : recent cinematic representations of the nakba / Haim Bresheeth; title: Faultlines of memory : The secret visitations of memory / Omar Al-Qattan; title: Gender of nakba memory / Isabelle Humphries and Laleh Khalili; title: Memories of conquest : witnessing death in Tantura / Samera Esmeir; title: The politics of witness : remembering and forgetting 1948 in Shatila camp / Diana Keown Allan; title: Afterword : reflections on representations, history, and moral accountability / Ahmad Sadi.