Heroes and martyrs of Palestine : the politics of national commemoration / Laleh Khalili
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- 3965422
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- Author:
- Khalili, Laleh
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2007
- xi, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780521865128
- 0521865123
- Series:
- Cambridge Middle East studies ; 27
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- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Nationalist memories
- Histories, memories, stories
- Approaching Palestinian nationalism
- The plan
- Transnational movements and discourses
- A brave music: the celebration of nations and their heroes
- Preserved in anthems, in flags and at the bank: domestication of heroes in states
- Permanent battles of history: transnational Islamist heroes
- Trauma drama: the human rights
- Humanitarian victim subjects
- Conclusions
- Palestinian lives and local institutions in the camps of Lebanon
- The nakba (1948)
- After the exodus (1948-1969)
- The thawra in the Palestinian camps (1969-1982)
- The years of war and destruction (1982-1993)
- After the Oslo Accords (1993)
- Silencing Palestinian pasts
- Forms of commemoration
- History telling
- Images
- Pedagogy
- Paper and electronic media
- Naming
- Organisation of time
- Organisation of spaces
- Ceremonial gatherings
- Conclusions
- Contents of commemoration: narratives of heroism, suffering, and sumud
- The contents of commemoration
- Heroic narratives
- Narratives of sumud
- Tragic narratives
- Conclusions
- Guerrillas and martyrs: evolution of national 'heroes'
- Commemorating martyrs for international audiences
- Commemoration of martyr
- Commemorative photographs and murals
- Naming of people, institutions and events after martyrs
- Martyrs' funerals
- Martyrs' mothers
- Archetypal martyrs
- National cemeteries and memorials
- Quotidian memory places
- Martyrs as heroes, martyrs as victims
- The fidaiyyin as iconic national heroes
- From fidayi to martyr
- Conclusions
- Between battles and massacres: commemorating violent events
- Battles as icons of militant nationalism
- Heroic defeats
- Shifting between battles and massacres
- Massacres as a metaphor for the palestinian predicament
- Commemorating tal al-zaʻtar and shatila
- A palimpsest of massacres
- Polysemic events: war of the camps
- Conclusions
- Commemoration in the occupied Palestinian territories
- The State's biography of the nation
- Oppositional heroic narratives
- Victims in ngo and solidarity discourses
- Conclusions
- Form and content of commemorations
- Available transnational discourses and local political institutions
- Commemoration as performance
- Evaluating tragic, heroic and sumud narratives
- The enduring resonance of national biographies
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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