Co-memory and melancholia Israelis memorialising the Palestininan Nakba.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
9780719081705; 9780719081705; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: living in the shadow; 2 Memory sites, postmemory, co-memory; 3 Memory and melancholia; 4 The fall of Haifa:telling autoethnographic stories; 5 The road to Damascus; 6 Historicising the Nakba: contested Nakbanarratives as an ongoing process1; 7 Zochrot : Nakba co-memory asperformance; 8 Melancholia, Nakba co-memoryand the politics of return; References; Index.
The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their?War of Independence? and the Palestinians their?Nakba?, or catastrophe. After many years of Nakba denial, land appropriation, political discrimination against the Palestinians within Israel and the denial of rights to Palestinian refugees, in recent years the Nakba is beginning to penetrate Israeli public discour.
9781847793225
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Collective memory--Israel. Arab-Israeli conflict--Social aspects. Arab-Israeli conflict--Psychological aspects. Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Public opinion. Public opinion--Israel.