The Palestine Nakba : decolonising history, narrating the subaltern, reclaiming memory / Nur Masalha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masalha, Nur, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.

Palestine--History--1929-1948.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book explores new ways of remembering and commemorating the Nakba - the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell Palestinians. Masalha argues that to write more truthfully about the Nakba is not just to practise a professional historiography but an ethical imperative. The struggles of ordinary refugees to recover and publicly assert the truth about the Nakba is a vital way of protecting their rights and keeping the hope for peace with justice alive.

Contents:

Zionism and European Settler-Colonialism. Blood, Soil, Race and Land Conquest ; Creating a Zionist Language ; European Zionist Narratives and Colonial Reality ; Framing the Conflict: Settler-colonialism, Herrenvolk Democracy, Ashkenazi Ethnocracy ; Colonialism, Anti-colonialism and Post-colonialism ; How Unique is the Zionist Settler-Colonial Project? ; Settler-colonialism and the Yishuv's 'Transfer Committees' and Schemes, 1937-48 ; 1948: A Pattern of Repeated Atrocities ; Dayr Yasin, 9 April 1948 ; Rape and Sexual Assault by Jewish Forces in 1948: The Galilee Atrocities

The Memoricide of the Nakba: Zionist-Hebrew Toponymy and the De-Arabisation of Palestine. Silencing the Palestinian Past ; The Importance of Toponymy and the Politics of Renaming ; Renaming as Self-reinvention: The Hebrewisation of Names after 1948 ; The Zionist Superimposing of Hebrew Toponymy ; Biblical Myths, Old and New: The Complicity of the Israeli Academy ; European Artists' Colonies as Places of Amnesia and Erasure ; The Reconsecration of Muslim Shrines as Jewish Shrines ; From Al-Majdal to Biblical Ashkelon, 1948-56 ; Appropriating Palestinian Place Names

Fashioning a European Landscape, Erasure and Amnesia: The Jewish National Fund, Afforestation and Green-washing the Nakba. Forests as a Space of Amnesia and Erasure ; Fashioning a European-biblical Landscape? ; The Liberal Coloniser Facing the European Forests ; The Destruction of al-Araqib, July 2010

Appropriating History: Looting of Palestinian Records, Archives and Library Collections, 1948-2011. The Beirut Archives of the Palestinian Research Centre, 1965-82 ; The Jerusalem Archives of the Arab Studies Society/Orient House, 1979-2001

Post-Zionism, the Liberal Coloniser and Hegemonic Narratives: A Critique of the Israeli 'New Historians'. The Myths of Zionism ; A New Regime of Knowledge? ; A Historiographic Revolution? ; 'New History' and the Liberal Coloniser: Khirbet Khiz'ah and Zionist Narratives ; The New Myths of Liberal Zionism: 1967 ; Shared Responsibility for the Catastrophe? ; A Post-colonial History? ; The Impact of the 'New Historians'/Post-Zionists ; The Historian's Methodology and Bridging the Narrative Gap ; Racism, Justification of Ethnic Cleansing and the Resurgence of Neo-colonial Epistemology ; The Israeli Academy and the Political-Military-Security Establishment

Decolonising History and Narrating the Subaltern: Palestinian Oral History, Indigenous and Gendered Memories. The Nakba as Site of Palestinian Collective Memory ; Archiving Popular Memory and People's Voices: Palestinian Oral History and Subaltern Studies ; Palestinian Oral History, Gendered Memories and Liberating Experiences ; Oral History of the Holocaust, Yad va-Shem and Dayr Yasin ; The Limits of Israeli and Colonial Records, Documents and Archives ; Silencing Palestinian Women's Voices within the Subaltern Story

Resisting Memoricide, Reclaiming Memory: Nakba Commemoration among Palestinians in Israel

Epilogue: The Continuity of Trauma.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-278) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786613520005

9781350223370

1350223379

9781848139732

184813973X

9781780326627

1780326629

9781280063763

1280063769

9781848139725

1848139721

OCLC:

779828554