For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the
West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary
Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of
the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice
of the past.
By focusing on memories of the Nakba or "catastrophe" of 1948,
in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were dispossessed to
create the state of Israel, the contributors to this volume
illuminate the contemporary Palestinian experience and clarify the
moral claims they make for justice and redress.
The book's essays consider the ways in which Palestinians have
remembered and organized themselves around the Nakba, a central
trauma that continues to be refracted through Palestinian personal
and collective memory. Analyzing oral histories and written
narratives, poetry and cinema, personal testimony and courtroom
evidence, the authors show how the continuing experience of
violence, displacement, and occupation have transformed the
pre-Nakba past and the land of Palestine into symbols of what has
been and continues to be lost.
"Nakba" brings to light the different ways in which Palestinians
experienced and retain in memory the events of 1948. It is the
first book to examine in detail how memories of Palestine's
cataclysmic past are shaped by differences of class, gender,
generation, and geographical location. In exploring the power of
the past, the authors show the urgency of the question of memory
for understanding the contested history of the present.
Contributors: Lila Abu Lughod, Columbia University; Diana Keown
Allan, Harvard University; Haim Bresheeth, University of East
London; Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University; Samera Esmeir,
University of California, Berkeley; Isabelle Humphries, University
of Surrey; Lena Jayyusi, Zayed University; Laleh Khalili, SOAS,
University of London; Omar Al-Qattan, filmmaker; Ahmad H. Sa'di,
Ben-Gurion University; Rosemary Sayigh, Lebanon-based
anthropologist; Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los
Angeles
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