Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling MemoriesCatastrophe 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. |
Contents
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1 Nostalgic Memory and Palestinian Identification | 15 |
On the Balconies of Our Houses in Exile | 58 |
Audiovisual Storytelling and Memory | 103 |
4 The Performance of Catastrophe and Palestinian Identity | 140 |
Narrative Fragments of an Ongoing Catastrophe | 173 |
Telling Memories in a Time of Catastrophe | 214 |
Notes | 219 |
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Abu Al-Khaizaran Abu Hussain Abu Qais Abu Qais’s Ahmed Ahmed’s Al-Makhdu’un Alphen analysis Arab argue articulates Assad audiovisual storytelling Bakri’s becomes Beirut catastrophe chapter characters concept context critical memory discourse discussion escape event exiled Palestinians exilic narrativity exilic space experience exposes Falih film film’s flag of Israel fragmented Gaza Strip historical imaginative Isam Isam’s Israel Israeli Kuwait land Lebanon literary living loss of home loss of homeland loss of place lost home lost homeland Luma Marwan means memory of al-Nakba memory of loss metaphor mode Nakba narration narratives of al-Nakba Narratologically Nofal’s nostalgia nostalgic memory nostalgic return notion ongoing Palestine Palestinian cultural Palestinian exile Palestinian identity Palestinian subject past performative narrativity political post-memory post-Nakba Palestinians present of exile Qalqilya reading refugee camp relationship Saeed Saleh’s Sayigh scene sense shift signifies specific story Su’ad subject’s temporal tion trauma Turki’s Ustaz Salim viewer voices Wadi Wadi’s words Yusra’s Zionist