An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba 9781786993496, 9781786993519, 9781786993526, 9781786993533, 1786993511, 178699352X
A definitive study of the Palestinian Nakba, interweaving oral testimony from 1948 and the present day to reveal an ongo
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English Year 2018
Table of contents :
Introduction --
Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha
Part I: Theorizing the Nakba and Oral History1. 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 Embodiment3. 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 Voices5. 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 Palestinians8. 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 Shatat12. 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.
