Research Catalog

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Description

1. 259 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world

Uniform title

1. Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.

Subject

1. Arab-Israeli conflict > Motion pictures and the conflict
2. Exile (Punishment) in literature
3. Collective memory > Palestine
4. Memory in literature
5. Arab-Israeli conflict > Literature and the conflict
6. Arabic fiction > Palestine > History and criticism
7. Arab-Israeli conflict > Personal narratives, Palestinian Arab
8. Nostalgia in literature
9. Arabic fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
10. Palestine > In literature

Contents

1. 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

Call number

1. JFD 12-6444

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

Author

1. Saloul, Ihab.

Title

1. Catastrophe and exile in the modern Palestinian imagination : telling memories / Ihab Saloul.

Imprint

1. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Series

1. Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
2. Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

LCCN

1. 2012011356

ISBN

1. 9781137001375 (hc.)
2. 1137001372 (hc.)

Research call number

1. JFD 12-6444