ISBN:
9780520251298
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 237 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
DDC:
956.9405
Keywords:
Palestinian Arabs Intellectual life 20th century
;
Palestine Social life and customs 20th century
;
Palestine Civilization
;
Palästinenser
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1900-1950
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Palestine's conflictual modernity -- The mountain against the sea? -- Cultural wars of the eastern Mediterranean -- From Emma Bovary to Hasan al-Banna : small towns and social control -- Bourgeois nostalgia and the abandoned city -- A musician's lot : the Jawhariyyeh memoirs as a key to Jerusalem's early modernity -- Lepers, lunatics, and saints : the nativist ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and his circle -- Sultana and Khalil : the origins of romantic love in Palestine -- The last feudal lord -- Ishaq Shami and the predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine -- The enigmatic bolshevik from the Holy city -- The vagabond caf's and Jerusalem's prince of idleness.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-221) and index
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