Catastrophe and exile in the modern Palestinian imagination
Subtitle: telling memories
By: Ihab Saloul
Series: Literature and cultures of the Islamic world
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781137001375
Subjects: Collective memory; Motion pictures and the conflict; Arabic fiction; History and criticism; Arab-Israeli conflict; Literature and the conflict; Palestinian Arab Personal narratives; Memory in literature; Exile (Punishment) in literature; In literature; Nostalgia in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION; title: NOSTALGIC MEMORY AND PALESTINIAN IDENTIFICATION. Nostalgia and Trauma; title: The Sea: Lovers' Escape and Vicious Dogs; title: Mr. Palestine: The Past Between Truth and Lie; title: Nostalgia for Jerusalem; title: From Nostalgia to Active Memory That Remains; title: Memorization, Exile and Nostalgic Identification; title: TRAVELING THEORY: ON THE BALCONIES OF OUR HOUSES IN EXILE. Forced Departures and Narrative Imagings; title: Ghurba: Beyond Metaphorization of Palestinian Exile; title: From Nostalgic to Critical Memory of Loss; title: The Everyday of Exile: Murder in the Museum; title: Fragmented Imagings: Beyond Geography; title: Our Mothers Mourn in Black; title: Fragmented Imagings, Fragmented Lives; title: The Canary and the Sea: Othering in Exile; title: EXILIC NARRATIVITY: AUDIOVISUAL STORYTELLING AND MEMORY. Exile Beyond Fiction and Documentary Divide; title: The Void of Exile: By Way of Showing; title: Loss as a Geopolitical Discontinuity: By Way of Telling; title: Palestinian Time-Space Beyond Tragedy; title: THE PERFORMANCE OF CATASTROPHE AND PALESTINIAN IDENTITY. Performative Narrativity: Exposing the Betrayal of Time; title: Exile of Body and Mind; title: Performing Palestinian and Israeli "We" in the "Aftermath"; title: The Everyday: Self, Others, and Exile; title: MANKOUB: NARRATIVE FRAGMENTS OF AN ONGOING CATASTROPHE. Ethnography as Narrative; title: De-Palestinianized; title: The Jewish Train Simply Did Not Skid; title: Catastrophic Time: Palestinian Roots Do Not Die; title: Palestinian Identity Beyond the Post-Memory of Nakba; title: AFTERWORD: TELLING MEMORIES IN A TIME OF CATASTROPHE.