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The Palestine Nakba : decolonising history, narrating the subaltern, reclaiming memory /

This book explores new ways of remembering and commemorating the Nakba - the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell Palestinians. Masalha argues that to write more truthfully about the Nakba is not just to practise a professional historiography but an ethical imperative. The struggles of ordina...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Masalha, Nur, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Zed Books, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Zionism and European Settler-Colonialism. Blood, Soil, Race and Land Conquest ; Creating a Zionist Language ; European Zionist Narratives and Colonial Reality ; Framing the Conflict: Settler-colonialism, Herrenvolk Democracy, Ashkenazi Ethnocracy ; Colonialism, Anti-colonialism and Post-colonialism ; How Unique is the Zionist Settler-Colonial Project? ; Settler-colonialism and the Yishuv's 'Transfer Committees' and Schemes, 1937-48 ; 1948: A Pattern of Repeated Atrocities ; Dayr Yasin, 9 April 1948 ; Rape and Sexual Assault by Jewish Forces in 1948: The Galilee Atrocities
  • The Memoricide of the Nakba: Zionist-Hebrew Toponymy and the De-Arabisation of Palestine. Silencing the Palestinian Past ; The Importance of Toponymy and the Politics of Renaming ; Renaming as Self-reinvention: The Hebrewisation of Names after 1948 ; The Zionist Superimposing of Hebrew Toponymy ; Biblical Myths, Old and New: The Complicity of the Israeli Academy ; European Artists' Colonies as Places of Amnesia and Erasure ; The Reconsecration of Muslim Shrines as Jewish Shrines ; From Al-Majdal to Biblical Ashkelon, 1948-56 ; Appropriating Palestinian Place Names
  • Fashioning a European Landscape, Erasure and Amnesia: The Jewish National Fund, Afforestation and Green-washing the Nakba. Forests as a Space of Amnesia and Erasure ; Fashioning a European-biblical Landscape? ; The Liberal Coloniser Facing the European Forests ; The Destruction of al-Araqib, July 2010
  • Appropriating History: Looting of Palestinian Records, Archives and Library Collections, 1948-2011. The Beirut Archives of the Palestinian Research Centre, 1965-82 ; The Jerusalem Archives of the Arab Studies Society/Orient House, 1979-2001
  • Post-Zionism, the Liberal Coloniser and Hegemonic Narratives: A Critique of the Israeli 'New Historians'. The Myths of Zionism ; A New Regime of Knowledge? ; A Historiographic Revolution? ; 'New History' and the Liberal Coloniser: Khirbet Khiz'ah and Zionist Narratives ; The New Myths of Liberal Zionism: 1967 ; Shared Responsibility for the Catastrophe? ; A Post-colonial History? ; The Impact of the 'New Historians'/Post-Zionists ; The Historian's Methodology and Bridging the Narrative Gap ; Racism, Justification of Ethnic Cleansing and the Resurgence of Neo-colonial Epistemology ; The Israeli Academy and the Political-Military-Security Establishment
  • Decolonising History and Narrating the Subaltern: Palestinian Oral History, Indigenous and Gendered Memories. The Nakba as Site of Palestinian Collective Memory ; Archiving Popular Memory and People's Voices: Palestinian Oral History and Subaltern Studies ; Palestinian Oral History, Gendered Memories and Liberating Experiences ; Oral History of the Holocaust, Yad va-Shem and Dayr Yasin ; The Limits of Israeli and Colonial Records, Documents and Archives ; Silencing Palestinian Women's Voices within the Subaltern Story
  • Resisting Memoricide, Reclaiming Memory: Nakba Commemoration among Palestinians in Israel
  • Epilogue: The Continuity of Trauma.