The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory
2012 marks the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba - the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell Palestinians. This book explores new ways of remembering and commemorating the Nakba. In the context of Palestinian oral history, it explores 'social history from below', subaltern narratives of memory and the formation of collective identity. 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 ordinary refugees to recover and publicly assert the truth about the Nakba is a vital way of protecting their rights and keeping the hope for peace with justice alive. This book is essential for understanding the place of the Palestine Nakba at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the vital role of memory in narratives of truth and reconciliation.
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Contents
Zionism and European SettlerColonialism
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ZionistHebrew Toponymy and the
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The Jewish
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A Critique
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Common terms and phrases
Abu-Lughod academic ancient Arabic names Aviv Ayn Hawd Beirut Ben-Gurion Benny Morris Benvenisti British Centre collective memory colonial colonisation of Palestine commemoration cultural Dayr Yasin decades decolonising depopulated destruction discourse documents established ethnic cleansing exile expulsion Galilee Haaretz Haganah Herzl historic Palestine historiography Holocaust ideology Ilan Pappé indigenous Palestinian internal refugees internally displaced Israeli army Israeli historians Israeli revisionist Jerusalem Jewish National Fund Jews Journal of Palestine Khalidi Khirbet Khiz‘ah Labour Labour Zionism landscape liberal Zionist London Masalha massacre Middle East military modern Morris’s Muslim myth Nakba Day narrative nationalist official organised Palestine Palestine Studies Palestine–Israel Palestinian Arab Palestinian citizens Palestinian Exodus Palestinian Nakba Palestinian national Palestinian oral history Palestinian refugees Palestinian villages Palestinians inside Israel political politicide population post-Zionism Sa’di Sayigh Segev settler settler-colonial Shlaim struggle Tom Segev toponymy transfer University Press West Bank Yishuv Yizhar York Zionist Zionist colonisation