Ronit Lentin

Co-memory and melancholia (eBook, ePUB)

Israelis memorialising the Palestinian Nakba

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their 'War of Independence' and the Palestinians their 'Nakba', or catastrophe. After many years of Nakba denial, land appropriation, political discrimination against the Palestinians within Israel and the denial of rights to Palestinian refugees, in recent years the Nakba is beginning to penetrate Israeli public discourse.

This book, available at last in paperback, explores the construction of collective memory in Israeli society, where the memory of the trauma of the Holocaust and of Israel's war dead competes with the memory claims of the dispossessed Palestinians.

Against a background of the Israeli resistance movement, Lentin's central argument is that co-memorating the Nakba by Israeli Jews is motivated by an unresolved melancholia about the disappearance of Palestine and the dispossession of the Palestinians, a melancholia that shifts mourning from the lost object to the grieving subject. Lentin theorises Nakba co-memory as a politics of resistance, counterpoising co-memorative practices by internally displaced Israeli Palestinians with Israeli Jewish discourses of the Palestinian right of return, and questions whether return narratives by Israeli Jews, courageous as they may seem, are ultimately about Israeli Jewish self-healing rather than justice for Palestine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847797681
• Artikelnr.: 44042874

Autorenporträt

Ronit Lentin is a retired Associate Professor of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, where she ran the Masters programme in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict. She published extensively on race critical theory, racism in Ireland, and Palestine and Israel. Her books include "Racism and Antiracism in Ireland" (with Robbie McVeigh 2002), "After Optimism: Ireland, Racism and Globalisation" (with Robbie McVeigh, 2006), "Race and State" (with Alana Lentin, 2006/8), "Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland" (with Elena Moreo, 2012), "Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation" (with Nahla Abdo, 2002), "Thinking Palestine" (2008), and "Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism" (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Living in the shadow 2. Memory sites, postmemory,
co-memory 3. Memory and melancholia 4. The fall of Haifa: Telling
autoethnographic stories 5. The road to Damascus 6. Historicising the
Nakba: Contested Nakba narratives as an ongoing process 7. Zochrot: Nakba
co-memory as performance 8. Conclusion: Melancholia, Nakba co-memory and
the politics of return References