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Author Allan, Diana (Diana Keown)

Title Refugees of the revolution : experiences of Palestinian exile / Diana Allan.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
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Description 1 online resource (328 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Commemorative economies -- Economic subjectivity and everyday solidarities -- Stealing power -- Dream talk, futurity, and hope -- Futures elsewhere -- Many returns -- Conclusion : the roots of exile.
Summary Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their ""right of return."" Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with ""the catastrophe"" of 1948 and their camps-inhabited now for four generations-as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it comes at a tr.
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Subject Shātīlā (Refugee camp)
Shātīlā (Refugee camp)
Israel-Arab War (1948-1949)
Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Lebanon -- Social conditions.
Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Lebanon.
Social conditions.
Palestinian Arabs -- Lebanon -- Social conditions.
Palestinian Arabs.
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Refugees -- Lebanon.
Refugee camps -- Lebanon.
Refugee camps.
Chronological Term 1948-1949
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Allan, Diana (Diana Keown). Refugees of the revolution. 9780804774918 0804774919 (DLC) 2013028176
ISBN 9780804788953 (electronic book)
0804788952 (electronic book)
9780804774925
9780804774918 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804774919 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804774927 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40023022801

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