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***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more
than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from
their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which
translates to 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' - lays bare the violence
of the ongoing Palestinian plight. Voices of the Nakba collects the
stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon,
documenting a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle
East through the voices of the people who lived through it. The
interviews, with commentary from leading scholars of Palestine and
the Middle East, offer a vivid journey into the history, politics
and culture of Palestine, defining Palestinian popular memory on
its own terms in all its plurality and complexity.
Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were
expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian
refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising
their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of
historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended
abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps--inhabited
now for four generations--as mere zones of waiting. While reducing
refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been
politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it
comes at a tremendous cost for refugees themselves, overlooking
their individual memories and aspirations and obscuring their
collective culture in exile.
"Refugees of the Revolution" is an evocative and provocative
examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut.
Challenging common assumptions about Palestinian identity and
nationalist politics, Diana Allan provides an immersive account of
camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner
lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with
poverty and marginalization, and plan--pragmatically and
speculatively--for the future. She gives unprecedented attention to
credit associations, debt relations, electricity bartering,
emigration networks, and NGO provisions, arguing that a distinct
Palestinian identity is being forged in the crucible of local
pressures.
What would it mean for the generations born in exile to return to a
place they never left? Allan addresses this question by rethinking
the relationship between home and homeland. In so doing, she
reveals how refugees are themselves pushing back against identities
rooted in a purely nationalist discourse. This groundbreaking book
offers a richly nuanced account of Palestinian exile, and presents
new possibilities for the future of the community.
***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more
than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from
their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which
translates to 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' - lays bare the violence
of the ongoing Palestinian plight. Voices of the Nakba collects the
stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon,
documenting a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle
East through the voices of the people who lived through it. The
interviews, with commentary from leading scholars of Palestine and
the Middle East, offer a vivid journey into the history, politics
and culture of Palestine, defining Palestinian popular memory on
its own terms in all its plurality and complexity.
Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were
expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian
refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising
their right of return. Exile has come to seem a kind of historical
amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly
with the catastrophe of 1948 and their campsOCoinhabited now for
four generationsOCoas mere zones of waiting. While reducing
refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been
politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it
comes at a tremendous cost for refugees themselves, overlooking
their individual memories and aspirations and obscuring their
collective culture in exile.
"Refugees of the Revolution" is an evocative and provocative
examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut.
Challenging common assumptions about Palestinian identity and
nationalist politics, Diana Allan provides an immersive account of
camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner
lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with
poverty and marginalization, and planOCoOCopragmatically and
speculativelyOCofor the future. She gives unprecedented attention
to credit associations, debt relations, electricity bartering,
emigration networks, and NGO provisions, arguing that a distinct
Palestinian identity is being forged in the crucible of local
pressures.
What would it mean for the generations born in exile to return to a
place they never left? Allan addresses this question by rethinking
the relationship between home and homeland. In so doing, she
reveals how refugees are themselves pushing back against identities
rooted in a purely nationalist discourse. This groundbreaking book
offers a richly nuanced account of Palestinian exile, and presents
new possibilities for the future of the community.
"
The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is
radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived
from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including
theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory,
history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural
studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political
theory; and as a special aspect of the volume, theorist-filmmakers
make their thoughts known as well. Consequently, the critical
reflections gathered here are decidedly pluralistic and
heterogeneous, inviting-not bracketing or partitioning-the dynamism
and diversity of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and even
natural sciences (in so far as we are biological beings who are
trying to track our cognitive and perceptual understanding of a
nonbiological thing-namely, film, whether celluloid-based or in
digital form); these disciplines, so habitually cordoned off from
one another, are brought together into a shared conversation about
a common object and domain of investigation. This book will be of
interest to theorists and practitioners of nonfiction film; to
emerging and established scholars contributing to the secondary
literature; and to those who are intrigued by the kinds of
questions and claims that seem native to nonfiction film, and who
may wish to explore some critical responses to them written in
engaging language.
The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is
radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived
from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including
theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory,
history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural
studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political
theory; and as a special aspect of the volume, theorist-filmmakers
make their thoughts known as well. Consequently, the critical
reflections gathered here are decidedly pluralistic and
heterogeneous, inviting-not bracketing or partitioning-the dynamism
and diversity of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and even
natural sciences (in so far as we are biological beings who are
trying to track our cognitive and perceptual understanding of a
nonbiological thing-namely, film, whether celluloid-based or in
digital form); these disciplines, so habitually cordoned off from
one another, are brought together into a shared conversation about
a common object and domain of investigation. This book will be of
interest to theorists and practitioners of nonfiction film; to
emerging and established scholars contributing to the secondary
literature; and to those who are intrigued by the kinds of
questions and claims that seem native to nonfiction film, and who
may wish to explore some critical responses to them written in
engaging language.
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