Mountain against the sea
Subtitle: essays on Palestinian society and culture
By: Salim Tamari.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780520251298
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Palestine -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Palestine -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction : Palestine's conflictual modernity; title: The mountain against the sea?; title: Cultural wars of the eastern Mediterranean; title: From Emma Bovary to Hasan al-Banna : small towns and social control; title: Bourgeois nostalgia and the abandoned city; title: A musician's lot : the Jawhariyyeh memoirs as a key to Jerusalem's early modernity; title: Lepers, lunatics, and saints : the nativist ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and his circle; title: Sultana and Khalil : the origins of romantic love in Palestine; title: The last feudal lord; title: Ishaq Shami and the predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine; title: The enigmatic bolshevik from the Holy city; title: The vagabond caf's and Jerusalem's prince of idleness.