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Co-memory and melancholia : Israelis memorialising the Palestinian Nakba / Ronit Lentin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lenṭin, Ronit, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Collective memory--Israel.
- Collective memory.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Social aspects.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Psychological aspects.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Public opinion.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
- Public opinion--Israel.
- Public opinion.
- Israel--Relations--Palestine.
- Israel.
- Palestine--Relations--Israel.
- Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their 'War of Independence' and the Palestinians their 'Nakba', or catastrophe. After many years of Nakba denial, land appropriation, political discrimination against the Palestinians within Israel and the denial of rights to Palestinian refugees, in recent years the Nakba is beginning to penetrate Israeli public discour
- Contents:
- 9780719081705; 9780719081705; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: living in the shadow; 2 Memory sites, postmemory, co-memory; 3 Memory and melancholia; 4 The fall of Haifa:telling autoethnographic stories; 5 The road to Damascus; 6 Historicising the Nakba: contested Nakbanarratives as an ongoing process1; 7 Zochrot : Nakba co-memory asperformance; 8 Melancholia, Nakba co-memoryand the politics of return; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781847797681
- 1847797687
- 9781781702550
- 1781702551
- 9781847793225
- 1847793223
- OCLC:
- 818847437
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