Heroes and martyrs of Palestine : the politics of national commemoration / Laleh Khalili.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khalili, Laleh, author.

Series:

Cambridge Middle East studies ; 27.

Cambridge Middle East studies ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestinian Arabs--History--20th century.

Palestinian Arabs.

National liberation movements--Palestine.

National liberation movements.

Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Lebanon.

Refugees, Palestinian Arab.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Heroes & Martyrs of Palestine

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many decades have passed since the Palestinian national movement began its political and military struggle. In that time, poignant memorials at massacre sites, a palimpsest of posters of young heroes and martyrs, sorrowful reminiscences about lost loved ones, and wistful images of young men and women who fought as guerrillas, have all flourished in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine tells the story of how dispossessed Palestinians have commemorated their past, and how through their dynamic everyday narrations, their nation has been made even without the institutional memory-making of a state. Bringing ethnography to political science, Khalili invites us to see Palestinian nationalism in its proper international context and traces its affinities with Third Worldist movements of its time, while tapping a rich and oft-ignored seam of Palestinian voices, histories, and memories.

Contents:

Transnational movements and discourses

Palestinian lives and local institutions in the camps of Lebanon

Forms of commemoration

Contents of commemoration : narratives of heroism, suffering, and sumud

Guerrillas and martyrs : the evolution of national "heroes"

Between battles and massacres : commemorating violent events

Commemoration in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-252) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16978-X

1-280-95936-3

9786610959365

0-511-29620-7

1-139-13213-X

0-511-29543-X

0-511-49223-5

0-511-29383-6

0-511-29463-8

OCLC:

437186693