Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
Edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu-Lughod
Paper, 416 pages, 14 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13579-5
$30.00
/ £20.50
April, 2007
Cloth, 416 pages, 14 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13578-8
$90.00
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliterations
Introduction: The Claims of Memory
Lila Abu-Lughod and Ahmad H. Sa’di
PART ONE. PLACES OF MEMORY
1. The Rape of Qula, a Destroyed Palestinian Village
Susan Slyomovics
2. Mapping the Past, Re-creating the Homeland: Memories of Village Places in pre-1948 Palestine
Rochelle Davis
3. Return to Half-Ruins: Memory, Postmemory, and Living History in Palestine
Lila Abu-Lughod
PART TWO. MODES OF MEMORY
4. Iterability, Cumulativity, and Presence: The Relations Figures of Palestinian Memory
Lena Jayyusi
5. Women’s Nakba Stories: Between Being and Knowing
Rosemary Sayigh
6. The Continuity of Trauma and Struggle: Recent Cinematic Representations of the Nakba
Haim Bresheeth
PART THREE. FAULTLINES OF MEMORY
7. The Secret Visitations of Memory
Omar Al-Qattan
8. Gender of Nakba Memory
Isabelle Humphries and Laleh Khalili
9. Memories of Conquest: Witnessing Death in Tantura
Samera Esmeri
10. The Politics of Witness: Remembering and Forgetting 1948 in Shatila Camp
Diana K. Allan
Afterword. Reflections on Representations, History, and Moral Accountability
Ahmad H. Sa’di
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Related Subjects
Series
About the Author
Ahmad H. Sa'di is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on political, social, and economic aspects of the lives of Palestinians in Israel.Lila Abu-Lughod is professor of anthropology and gender studies at Columbia University. Her books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories, and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt.Lila Abu Lughod: Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Columbia University. She has published or edited many books including: Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (California, 2000); Writing Women's World: Bedouin Stories (California, 1993); Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (Princeton, 1998); and, Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (Chicago, 2004). Although most of her ethnographic research has been on Egypt, she has begun to publish on Palestinian documentary film, ethnography, and memory. Her articles have appeared in journals including the American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Social Text, and Feminist Studies. Ahmad H. Sa'di: Lecturer in the department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. His work has focused on democratic politics and issues of citizenship, the impact of local political organizations and personalities on the course of political and social history, on the problems of majority/minority relations, and on labor and economic conditions of Israel's Arab 'minority.' He has published numerous articles in journals including Sociology; Work, Employment and Society; International Journal of Intercultural Relations; Social Identities; Arab Studies Quarterly; Asian Journal of Social Sciences; Social Text; The Japan Center For Area Studies Review; Israel Studies; and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. His most recent work has been on Al-Nakbah in Palestinian collective memory.
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