Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 285 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814716385
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0814716377
Content:
Occupied by Memory explores the memories of the first Palestinian intifada. Based on extensive interviews with members of the "intifada generation," those who were between 10 and 18 years old when the intifada began in 1987, the book provides a detailed look at the intifada memories of ordinary Palestinians. These personal stories are presented as part of a complex and politically charged discursive field through which young Palestinians are invested with meaning by scholars, politicians, journalists, and other observers. What emerges from their memories is a sense of a generation ca
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index
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Contents; Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Production Notes; 2 "Gaza Is Ruled by a Child": The Intifada and the Rhetoricof Generation; 3 Between Romance and Tragedy: A Balata Family Confronts the Present; 4 The Secret Locations of Memory: Political Lessons at Home and in Prison; 5 The Testing Grounds of Memory: Social Inversion at School and inthe Streets; 6 "In the Beginning . . . but Afterward . . .": Moral Chronologies and Reassessmentsof the Intifada; 7 Postscript: A Permanent State of Emergency(continued); Appendix The Intifada: A Brief Overview; Notes
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Glossary of Arabic TermsBibliography; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814716373
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Occupied by Memory : The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of Emergency
Language:
English
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