Ussama Makdisi / Paul A. Silverstein

Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

Herausgeber: Makdisi, Ussama; Silverstein, Paul A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780253217981
• ISBN-10: 0253217989
• Artikelnr.: 22188836

Autorenporträt

Ussama Makdisi is Associate Professor of History at Rice University. Paul A. Silverstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.

Inhaltsangabe

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