Format:
Online-Ressource (253 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780520251298
Content:
This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the earlier, formative years. Drawing on previously unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the momentous first half of the twentieth century. He brings to light the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned (and defined) the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, an
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Palestine's Conflictual Modernity; 2. The Mountain against the Sea? Cultural Wars of the Eastern Mediterranean; 3. From Emma Bovary to Hasan al-Banna: Small Towns and Social Control; 4. Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City; 5. A Musician's Lot: The Jawhariyyeh Memoirs as a Key to Jerusalem's Early Modernity; 6. Lepers, Lunatics, and Saints: The Nativist Ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and His Circle; 7. Sultana and Khalil: The Origins of Romantic Love in Palestine; 8. The Last Feudal Lord
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9. Ishaq Shami and the Predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine10. The Enigmatic Bolshevik from the Holy City; 11. The Vagabond Café and Jerusalem's Prince of Idleness; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520942424
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520251298
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mountain against the Sea : Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture
Language:
English
Keywords:
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