An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba

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A definitive study of the Palestinian Nakba, interweaving oral testimony from 1948 and the present day to reveal an ongoing process aimed at the erasure of Palestinian history and memory.;Introduction -- Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha; Part I: Theorizing the Nakba and Oral History1. Decolonising Methodology, Reclaiming Memory: Palestinian Oral Histories and Memories of the Nakba -- Nur Masalha 2. Feminism, Indigenousness and Settler Colonialism: Oral History, Memory and the Nakba -- Nahla Abdo Part II: Between Epistemology and Ontology: Nakba Embodiment3. What Bodies Remember: Sensory Experience as Historical Counterpoint in the Nakba Archive -- Diana Allan 4. The Time of Small Returns: Affect and Resistance During the Nakba -- Lena Jayyusi Part III: Archiving the Nakba through Palestinian Refugee Women's Voices5. Nakbah Silencing and the Challenge of Palestinian Oral History -- Rosemary Sayigh 6. Shu'fat Refugee Camp Women Authenticate an Old 'Nakba' and Frame Something 'New' while Narrating It -- Laura Khoury 7. Gender Representation of Oral History: Palestinian Women Narrating the Stories of their Displacement -- Faiha Abdel-Hadi Part IV: The Nakba and 48 Palestinians8. The Ongoing Nakba: Urban Palestinian Survival in Haifa -- Himmat Zubi 9. Suffourieh: A Continuous Tragedy -- Amina Qablawi Nasrallah 10. The Sons and Daughters of Eilaboun -- Hisham Zreiq 11.'This Is Your Father's Land': Palestinian Bedouin Women Encounter the Nakba in the Naqab -- Safa Abu-Rabi'a Part V: Documenting Nakba Narratives from the Gaza Strip and the Shatat12. The Young Do Not Forget -- Mona Al-Farra 13. Gaza Remembers: Narratives of Displacement in Gaza's Oral History -- Malaka Mohammad Shwaikh 14.'Besieging the Cultural Siege': Mapping Narratives of Nakba through Orality and Repertoires of Resistance -- Chandni Desai. Introduction -- Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha Part I: Theorizing the Nakba and Oral History1. Decolonising Methodology, Reclaiming Memory: Palestinian Oral Histories and Memories of the Nakba -- Nur Masalha 2. Feminism, Indigenousness and Settler Colonialism: Oral History, Memory and the Nakba -- Nahla Abdo Part II: Between Epistemology and Ontology: Nakba Embodiment3. What Bodies Remember: Sensory Experience as Historical Counterpoint in the Nakba Archive -- Diana Allan 4. The Time of Small Returns: Affect and Resistance During the Nakba -- Lena Jayyusi Part III: Archiving the Nakba through Palestinian Refugee Women's Voices5. Nakbah Silencing and the Challenge of Palestinian Oral History -- Rosemary Sayigh 6. Shu'fat Refugee Camp Women Authenticate an Old 'Nakba' and Frame Something 'New' while Narrating It -- Laura Khoury 7. Gender Representation of Oral History: Palestinian Women Narrating the Stories of their Displacement -- Faiha Abdel-Hadi Part IV: The Nakba and 48 Palestinians8. The Ongoing Nakba: Urban Palestinian Survival in Haifa -- Himmat Zubi 9. Suffourieh: A Continuous Tragedy -- Amina Qablawi Nasrallah 10. The Sons and Daughters of Eilaboun -- Hisham Zreiq 11.'This Is Your Father's Land': Palestinian Bedouin Women Encounter the Nakba in the Naqab -- Safa Abu-Rabi'a Part V: Documenting Nakba Narratives from the Gaza Strip and the Shatat12. The Young Do Not Forget -- Mona Al-Farra 13. Gaza Remembers: Narratives of Displacement in Gaza's Oral History -- Malaka Mohammad Shwaikh 14.'Besieging the Cultural Siege': Mapping Narratives of Nakba through Orality and Repertoires of Resistance -- Chandni Desai.