Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination
Telling Memories
Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | I. Saloul | ISBN: | 9781137001382 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | May 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | I. Saloul |
| ISBN: | 9781137001382 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | May 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian culture.
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian culture.
