Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

Informationen zum Autor Ussama Makdisi is Associate Professor of History at Rice University. Paul A. Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College. Klappentext Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration. Zusammenfassung Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North AfricaPaul A. Silverstein and Ussama Makdisi I. Violence and Sacrifice 1. A Death Revisited: Solidarity and Dissonance in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian CommunityGlenn Bowman 2. Martyrdom and Destiny: The Inscription and Imagination of Algerian HistoryJames McDougall 3. Patriotic Sacrifice and the Burden of Memory in Israeli Secular National Hebrew CultureYael Zerubavel II. Resolution and Reconciliation 4. Commemoration under Fire: Palestinian Responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre Shira Robinson 5. The Making and Unmaking of Memories: The Case of a Multi-Confessional Village in LebanonAnja Peleikis 6. The Algerian War in French Memory: Vengeful Memory's ViolenceBenjamin Stora III. Archaeology of Memory 7. Can the Subaltern Remember? A Pessimistic View of the Victims of ZionismGabriel Piterberg 8. Beirut, a City without History?Saree Makdisi 9. Archaeology, Nationhood, and SettlementNadia Abu El-Haj Contributors Index

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• Authors: Ussama (EDT)/ Silverstein Makdisi, Ussama Silverstein Makdisi
• Assisted by: Edited by Ussama Makdisi and Paul a Silv (Editor), Ussama Makdisi (Editor), Paul Silverstein (Editor), Paul A Silverstein (Editor), Paul A. Silverstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2006
• EAN: 9780253217981
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21798-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)