| Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling Memories 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Saloul, I. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349433594 ISBN-13: 9781349433599 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - History | Middle East - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 892.709 |
| Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 259 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian culture. |