Mountain against the sea : essays on Palestinian society and culture /

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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 cultu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tamåaråi, Salåim
Autor Corporativo: MyiLibrary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2009.
Temas:
1900-1999
Palestinian Arabs > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Palestiniens > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Middle East > Israel.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Civilization
Manners and customs
Palestinian Arabs > Intellectual life
Gesellschaft
Kultur
Palestine > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Palestine > Civilization.
Palestine > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
Middle East > Palestine
Palästinenser.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Palestine's conflictual modernity
  • The mountain against the sea? Cultural wars of the eastern Mediterranean
  • From Emma Bovary to Hasan al-Banna : small towns and social control
  • Bourgeois nostalgia and the abandoned city
  • A musician's lot : the Jawhariyyeh memoirs as a key to Jerusalem's early modernity
  • Lepers, lunatics, and saints : the nativist ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and his circle
  • Sultana and Khalil : the origins of romantic love in Palestine
  • The last feudal lord
  • Ishaq Shami and the predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine
  • The enigmatic Bolshevik from the Holy city
  • The vagabond café and Jerusalem's prince of idleness.

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