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
Autor principal: Tamåaråi, Salåim
Autor Corporativo: MyiLibrary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kultur
Gesellschaft
Palestinian Arabs > Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Civilization.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
HISTORY > Middle East > Israel.
Palestiniens > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Palestinian Arabs > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Palästinenser.
Middle East > Palestine.
Palestine > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
Palestine > Civilization.
Palestine > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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 cafe and Jerusalem's prince of idleness.

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