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Palestinians born in exile : diaspora and the search for a homeland / Juliane Hammer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammer, Juliane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palestinian Arabs--Case studies.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- National characteristics, Palestinian.
- Repatriation--Palestine.
- Repatriation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the decade following the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, some 100,000 diasporic Palestinians returned to the West Bank and Gaza.Among them were children and young adults who were born in exile and whose sense of Palestinian identity was shaped not by lived experience but rather through the transmission and re-creation of memories, images, and history.
- Contents:
- Palestinian migration, refugees, and return
- Palestinian national identity, memory, and history
- The country of my dreams
- Return to Palestine : dreams and realities
- The return process in comparison
- Rewriting of identities in the context of diaspora and return
- Home and the future of Palestinian identities.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-292-79765-6
- OCLC:
- 614978492
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