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Author:
Saloul, Ihab.
Title:
Catastrophe and exile in the modern Palestinian imagination : telling memories / Ihab Saloul.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Arabic fiction--Palestine--History and criticism.
Arabic fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Palestine--In literature.
Exile (Punishment) in literature.
Nostalgia in literature.
Memory in literature.
Arab-Israeli conflict--Literature and the conflict.
Arab-Israeli conflict--Motion pictures and the conflict.
Arab-Israeli conflict--Personal narratives, Palestinian Arab.
Collective memory--Palestine.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Series:
Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
ISBN:
1137001372
9781137001375
OCLC:
(OCoLC)759175580
LCCN:
2012011356
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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