Being Palestinian : Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora /
'These thoughtful, poignant reflections bring forth vividly some of the human dimensions of one of the great tragedies of current history, the forced dispossession of Palestinians from their homeland.' - Noam Chomsky'This handsome collection speaks in a multiplicity of voices and text...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Becoming Palestinian
- Beyond Recitation and Ritual
- Only Icons
- Resident of Both, National of None
- Without my Jaffa: Other Seas
- Buffeted By How Others See You
- Disrupting the Peace of Others
- Fate: A Blessing
- The Invisible Face of the Occupier
- A Palestinian State of Mind
- No Land's Man Determined to Return to Palestine
- An Ornithologist from Iceland
- A Recurring Sound. A Familiar Image
- A Journey in Progress
- In Dust
- Citizen of the World
- Being Nobody
- Embracing Uncertainty
- 'Our Country Lives in Us'
- Forever Gazan
- Ties that Bind, Ties that Sustain
- Pal.I.Am
- Things We Carry With Us
- The Sadness Continues
- Childhood Curtailed
- Forty Days of Mourning
- Seeking 'Home'
- Voices from Within
- The Tree
- A Road Taken
- Living in a World of Double Standards
- Walking in Her Years
- Claiming Citizenship
- Breathing Politics
- Motherland
- Painting my Way Back Home One Stitch at a Time
- A Demon of Hope
- Contradictory Worlds
- Bint Liblaad on the Road
- Darker Shades of Exile
- Present in Absence
- Inside as an Outsider
- Caught Between the Taste of Sunshine and Chopin Nocturnes
- I See Palestine in my Rear-View Mirror
- I Am, and I Am Always Becoming
- Guide to Being Palestinian
- Memories that Live
- A Boy from Mash-had
- Reconciling Araby and America
- When Will it be Vacant?
- Living in Letters or the Arrogance of a Cityless Man
- Palestine in the Nepantla
- Enduring Ties
- The Pain and Beauty of Dispossession
- The Durable Cords of Memory
- Mujaddara - Arabian Haggis!
- Still Life
- Subversive Abstraction
- Where to Now?
- Fitting Nowhere
- Home is Where the Heart is. But Where is Home?
- A Vision Affirmed
- Bridge to Palestine
- Badge of Honour
- Homemaking
- Stranger to my Own Story
- No Room in my Luggage
- Labyrinth of Memories
- Palestine the Brave
- From Ajjur to America: Rootedness in Diaspora
- In, but not Of
- Lurching at Jericho
- Rolling Grape Leaves on a Map of the World
- An Act of Resistance
- The Mukhtar and I: A Day with my Grandfather in the Old City
- Parsley, Miryamiyah, Rosemary and Za'tar
- In Search of a Common Language
- Fostering Palestine
- Seeds of Justice
- My Resilient Flag
- Written on his Forehead: My Father, Aziz Shihab
- Aiming High
- My Mother's Heels
- Images from a Shattered Mirror
- Be/longing
- Eating Forbidden Palestine
- Palestinian-Something
- No Paradise to Recreate
- A Mission to Explain
- A Heavy, Unwieldy Bag
- Lost to Geography
- Transcending Blind Allegiance
- Still a Palestinian
- Homing Instincts
- Born(e) in the Heart
- Bodily Wounds and the Journey Home
- Holding Palestine Close to my Heart
- When All is Not What it Seems
- The Weight of Our Blessings
- A Sometime Palestinian
- Entry Denied
- Barricaded
- Glossary