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Catastrophe and exile in the modern Palestinian imagination Telling memories /

This book addresses central concepts to debates over Palestinian identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, identity as representationally performative, and post-memory and geopolitical continuity of loss of place in the everyday.

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Main Authors: Saloul, Ihab
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
Subjects:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Literary studies: from c 1900
Literature
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137001382
Summary: This book addresses central concepts to debates over Palestinian identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, identity as representationally performative, and post-memory and geopolitical continuity of loss of place in the everyday.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Originally published in: 2012.
Carrier Form: 272 p.
ISBN: 9781137001375
9781137001382 :
1137001380 :
CLC: I11
Contents: Introduction Nostalgic Memory and Palestinian Identification Traveling Theory: On the Balconies of Our Houses in Exile Exilic Narrativity: Audiovisual Storytelling and Memory The Performance of Catastrophe and Palestinian Identity Mankoub: Narrative Fragments of an Ongoing Catastrophe Afterword: Telling Memories in a Time of Catastrophe.

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