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Occupied by Memory
John Collins
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Description for Occupied by Memory
Paperback. Based on extensive interviews with members of the "intifada generation," those who were between 10 and 18 years old when the intifada began in 1987, this book provides a detailed look at the intifada memories of ordinary Palestinians. Num Pages: 285 pages, 6 pages with halftones. BIC Classification: 1FBP; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
Occupied by Memory explores the memories of the first Palestinian intifada. Based on extensive interviews with members of the "intifada generation," those who were between 10 and 18 years old when the intifada began in 1987, the book provides a detailed look at the intifada memories of ordinary Palestinians.
These personal stories are presented as part of a complex and politically charged discursive field through which young Palestinians are invested with meaning by scholars, politicians, journalists, and other observers. What emerges from their memories is a sense of a generation caught between a past that is simultaneously traumatic, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814716380
SKU
V9780814716380
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About John Collins
John Collins is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University. He is co-editor of Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War.
Reviews for Occupied by Memory
A powerfully honest work and a tremendous contribution to the literature on memory and violence in the Middle East. Superbly narrated, Occupied by Memory is compassionate but not sentimental, theoretically astute, and empathetically written.
Ussama Makdisi,author of The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ott In Occupied by Memory, John Collins asks the 'intifada generation' to ... Read more
Ussama Makdisi,author of The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ott In Occupied by Memory, John Collins asks the 'intifada generation' to ... Read more