Palestinian collective memory and national identity
By: edited by Meir Litvak.
Contributors: Litvak, Meir.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York City, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government; National characteristics, Palestinian; Nationalism and collective memory -- Palestine
Description: "The articles in Palestinian collective memory and national identity analyze the evolution and cultivation of modern Palestinian collective memory and its role in shaping Palestinian national identity from its inception in the 1920s to the 2006 Palestinian elections. While collective memory is central for any group feeling, it is particularly important for the Palestinians as a semi-diasporic people who are still engaged in the struggle for statehood."--Book cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Meir Litvak; title: The evolution of a founding myth: the nakba and its fluctuating meaning / Esther Webman; title: The memory that never dies: the nakba memory and the Palestinian, National movement / Michael Milstein; title: Memory from below: Palestinian society and the nakba memory / Michael Milstein; title: Constructing a national past: the Palestinian case / Meir Litvak; title: Historical discourse in the Palestinian media of the Palestinian National Authority / Sariel Birnbaum; title: Palestinian women and collective memory / Hanita Brand; title: A dream of severance: crisis of identity in Palestinian fiction in Israel / Mahmud Ghanayim.