Second life : a West Bank memoir / Janet Varner Gunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunn, Janet Varner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestinian Arabs--Civil rights--West Bank.

Palestinian Arabs.

West Bank--Politics and government.

West Bank.

Duhayshah (West Bank : Refugee camp).

Gunn, Janet Varner--Travel--West Bank.

Gunn, Janet Varner.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This memoir recounts the time the author spent as a human rights worker on the West Bank. In a moving meditation on the many forms of both autobiography and resistance to power, Gunn tells the story of a Palestinian teenager who was critically shot during a stone-throwing demonstration and deemed a "living martyr" of the Intifada.

Contents:

Contents; The Abu Aker Family; Foreword: ""Our Blood Will Plant Its Olive Tree""; Acknowledgments; Prologue: An Autobiographical Experiment; Part I. A Second Life; Chapter 1. The ""Living Martyr""; Chapter 2. The Deheishe Story; Chapter 3. ""What Does It Mean Human?""; Chapter 4. Through the Looking-Glass in Cairo; Part II. Three Returns; Chapter 5. First Return: Mourning a Martyr; Chapter 6. Second Return: After the Gulf War; Chapter 7. Third Return: Violating and Transforming Space; Epilogue: Crossing Borders; Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S

TU; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes biblioraphical references (p. 149-153) and index.

Includes biblioraphical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8620-3

OCLC:

476093923