Mountain Against the Sea Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

Name: Mountain Against the Sea Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture
Price: 78.85 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780520251298

ISBN-10: 0520251296

ISBN-13: 9780520251298

Edition: 2008

Authors: Salim Tamari

List price: $85.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $78.85

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the earlier, formative years. Drawing on previously unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the momentous first half of the twentieth century. He brings to light the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned (and defined) the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. These essays present an integrated cultural history that illuminates a…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/3/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Salim Tamariis Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, Palestine, the Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, and the author ofMountain Against the Sea(UC Press).



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 Cafe and Jerusalem's Prince of Idleness


Notes


Bibliography


Index