Palestinian Collective Memory And National Identity

Author : M. Litvak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230621635
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Collective Memory and National Identity written by M. Litvak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Michelle Mathew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Memory, National Identity written by Michelle Mathew and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mahmoud M. Na'amneh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Memory and National Identity in Jordan written by Mahmoud M. Na'amneh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ahmad H. Sa'di
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231135785
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nakba written by Ahmad H. Sa'di and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors examine how the Nakba has shaped the personal and collective memory of Palestinians and how that memory impels their claims for justice.

Author : Sharif Kanaana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443887862
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Palestinian Identity written by Sharif Kanaana and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1948 Nakba, around three quarters of a million Palestinians were driven out of their homes and became refugees. Since then, they have not been allowed to return to their homeland, but have not given up. Originally concentrated mainly in neighbouring Arab countries, they have, in their attempts for survival, spread throughout the world, and are now found in most European countries, the United States, Canada, and several South American countries. This book is a result of a conference held on the theme of “the Future of Palestinian Identity”, which resulted from a prevailing feeling among Palestinians, both academics and otherwise, that Palestinian identity seems to be suffering from a state of weakening and retreat. The conference was intended to increase awareness of the dangers threatening Palestinian identity. As a result, the contributions to this volume study, analyse, and suggest solutions to the problems facing Palestinian identity today, and centre around four main themes, namely: the history of the emergence and development of Palestinian national identity, considering the circumstances which led to its emergence and the main stages in this development; the constituent elements of Palestinian national identity, looking at what makes a person Palestinian and the shared symbols of Palestinian identity; the extent to which a shared Palestinian identity is necessary; and the future of this identity. Contributors include both Palestinian and international scholars.

Author : Farah Aboubakr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786725797
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Folktales of Palestine written by Farah Aboubakr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds. Both the stories and the process of storytelling itself help to define social, cultural and political identity. For Palestinians, the threat of losing their heritage has engendered a sense of urgency among storytellers and Palestinian folklorists. Yet there has been remarkably little academic scholarship dedicated to the tradition. Farah Aboubakr here analyses a selection of folktales edited, compiled and translated by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana in Speak, Bird, Speak Again (1989). In addition to the folktales themselves, Muhawi and Kanaana's collection is renowned for providing readers with extensive folkloric, historical and anthropological annotations. Here, for the first time, the folktales and the compilers' work on them, are the subject of scholarly analysis. Synthesising various disciplines including memory studies, gender studies and social movement studies, Aboubakr uses the collection to understand the politics of storytelling and its impact on Palestinian identity. In particular, the book draws attention to the female storytellers who play an essential role in transmitting and preserving collective memory and culture. The book is an important step towards analysing a significant genre of Palestinian literature and will be relevant to scholars of Palestinian politics and popular culture, gender studies and memory studies, and those interested in folklore and oral literature.

Author : Riad M. Nasser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135931364
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel written by Riad M. Nasser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the process of national identity formation. It argues that identity, whether of a small community, a nation, an ethnic group, or a religious community, requires an Other against whom it becomes meaningful. In other words, identity develops via difference from Others against whom our sense of self becomes meaningful. This thesis emerges out of the synthesis the study develops from the from the various modern and poststructuralist theories of identity and nationalism.

Author : Maeed Almarhabi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Trauma and the Formation of Palestinian National Identity in Palestinian-American Writing written by Maeed Almarhabi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the relationship that the Palestinian diaspora maintains with the motherland of Palestine. Specifically, it studies the factors contributing to the fostering of such a sense of affiliation among Palestinian diasporic communities despite the absence of a Palestinian political entity that could undertake such a process. This dissertation proposes that the Palestinian master-narrative plays a significant role in maintaining and enhancing the attachment and affiliation of Palestinian diasporic communities with their original homeland. The Palestinian master-narrative, it is contended, is one of the main vehicles through which Palestinian national identity is built within and beyond the geographical realm of historic Palestine. This research claims that Palestinian diasporic writing (including Palestinian-American writing) has been circulating the Palestinian national narrative, which plays a significant role in enhancing the connection between Palestinian diasporic communities and their original homeland and helping them build a national identity. In addition, the circulation of these national narratives establishes the Nakba as a traumatic event in the collective imagination of post-Nakba Palestinian generations, making them equally traumatized as those Palestinians who experienced these events firsthand.Specifically, this dissertation focuses on representations of two main Palestinian national narratives in Palestinian-American writing and their role in building Palestinian national identity. The first narrative is that of the right of return and it is traced in Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin (2006). The second one is the narrative of sumud and it is examined in Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home (2008). In addition, the relationship between memory and Palestinian identity-building via national narrative is explored in Shaw Dallal's Scattered Like Seeds (1998).

Author : Victor Roudometof
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict written by Victor Roudometof and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an analysis of inter-ethnic relations in the Southern Balkans. It examines the evolution of the "Macedonian question" and the production of rival national narratives by Greeks, Bulgarians and Macedonians. It deconstructs the national narratives to show their limitations and biases.

Author : Tahrir Hamdi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755617835
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Palestine written by Tahrir Hamdi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All national identities are somewhat fluid, held together by collective beliefs and practices as much as official territory and borders. In the context of the Palestinians, whose national status in so many instances remains unresolved, the articulation and 'imagination' of national identity is particularly urgent. This book explores the ways that Palestinian intellectuals, artists, activists and ordinary citizens 'imagine' their homeland, examining the works of key Palestinian and other thinkers and writers such as Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Naji Al Ali, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Radwa Ashour, Suheir Hammad, and Susan Abulhawa. Deploying decolonial and resistance concepts, such as Palestinian sumud, Tahrir Hamdi argues that the imaginative construction of Palestine is a key element in the Palestinians' ongoing struggle. An interdisciplinary work drawing upon critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies and literary analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Palestine and Middle East studies and Arabic literature.