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

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

2012 marks the 64th anniversary of the Nakba - the Palestinian's flight from Israel. This book explores ways of remembering and commemorating the Nakba, dealing with the issue from within the context of Palestinian oral history.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Masalha, Nur, 1957- (Author)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Palestinian Nakba, 1947-1948.
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
Palestine > History > 1929-1948.
Table of Contents:
  • Zionism and European settler-colonialism
  • The memoricide of the Nakba : Zionist-Hebrew toponymy and the de-Arabisation of Palestine
  • Fashioning a European landscape, erasure and amnesia : the Jewish National Fund, afforestation and green-washing the Nakba
  • Appropriating history : looting of Palestinian records, archives and library collections, 1948-2011
  • Post-Zionism, the liberal coloniser and hegemonic narratives : a critique of the Israeli 'new historians'
  • Decolonising history and narrating the subaltern : Palestinian oral history, indigenous and gendered memories
  • Resisting memoricide, reclaiming memory : Nakba commemoration among Palestinians in Israel
  • Epilogue : the continuity of trauma.

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