Palestinian Collective Memory and National Identity
β Scribed by Meir Litvak
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 255
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book analyzes the evolution and cultivation of modern Palestinian collective memory and its role in shaping Palestinian national identity from its inception in the 1920s to the 2006 Palestinian elections.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Collective Memory and the Palestinian Experience......Page 10
1 The Evolution of a Founding Myth: The Nakba and Its Fluctuating Meaning......Page 36
2 The Memory that Never Dies: The Nakba Memory and the Palestinian National Movement......Page 56
3 Memory βfrom Belowβ: Palestinian Society and the Nakba Memory......Page 80
4 Constructing a National Past: The Palestinian Case......Page 106
5 Historical Discourse in the Media of the Palestinian National Authority......Page 144
6 Palestinian Women and Collective Memory......Page 178
7 A Dream of Severance: Crisis of Identity in Palestinian Fiction in Israel......Page 202
Bibliography......Page 226
Notes on Contributors......Page 246
B......Page 248
D......Page 249
H......Page 250
K......Page 251
N......Page 252
R......Page 253
T......Page 254
Z......Page 255
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