An oral history of the Palestinian Nakba / edited by Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.

Abdo-Zubi, Nahla, 1953- editor.

Masalha, Nur, 1957- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internally displaced persons.

Oral history.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Relations.

Palestine--Relations--Israel.

Palestine.

Israel--Relations--Palestine.

Israel.

Middle East--Palestine.

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Personal narratives.

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Personal narratives.

Oral history--Palestine.

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Refugees.

Refugees.

Refugees, Palestinian Arab.

Internally displaced persons--Palestine.

International relations.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

vii, 315 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : ZED, 2018.

Summary:

A definitive study of the Palestinian Nakba, interweaving oral testimony from 1948 and the present day to reveal an ongoing process aimed at the erasure of Palestinian history and memory.

Contents:

Part I. Theorizing the Nakba and Oral History

1. Decolonising Methodology, Reclaiming Memory: Palestinian Oral Histories and Memories of the Nakba / Nur Masalha

2. Feminism, Indigenousness and Settler Colonialism: Oral History, Memory and the Nakba / Nahla Abdo

Part II. Between Epistemology and Ontology: Nakba Embodiment

3. What Bodies Remember: Sensory Experience as Historical Counterpoint in the Nakba Archive / Diana Allan

4. The Time of Small Returns: Affect and Resistance During the Nakba / Lena Jayyusi

Part III. Archiving the Nakba through Palestinian Refugee Women's Voices

5. Nakbah Silencing and the Challenge of Palestinian Oral History / Rosemary Sayigh

6. Shu'fat Refugee Camp Women Authenticate an Old 'Nakba' and Frame Something 'New' while Narrating It / Laura Khoury

7. Gender Representation of Oral History: Palestinian Women Narrating the Stories of their Displacement / Faiha Abdel-Hadi

Part IV. The Nakba and 48 Palestinians

8. The Ongoing Nakba: Urban Palestinian Survival in Haifa / Himmat Zubi

9. Suffourieh: A Continuous Tragedy / Amina Qablawi Nasrallah

10. The Sons and Daughters of Eilaboun / Hisham Zreiq

11. 'This Is Your Father's Land': Palestinian Bedouin Women Encounter the Nakba in the Naqab / Safa Abu-Rabi'a

Part V. Documenting Nakba Narratives from the Gaza Strip and the Shatat

12. The Young Do Not Forget / Mona Al-Farra

13. Gaza Remembers: Narratives of Displacement in Gaza's Oral History / Malaka Mohammad Shwaikh

14. 'Besieging the Cultural Siege': Mapping Narratives of Nakba through Orality and Repertoires of Resistance / Chandni Desai.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781786993496

178699349X

OCLC:

991689424