Mountain against the sea : essays on Palestinian society and culture /
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
2009.
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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.