Mountain against the sea : essays on Palestinian society and culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tamārī, Salīm
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Palestine > Social life and customs > 20th century. Palestinian Arabs > Intellectual life > 20th century. Palestine > Civilization.

Table of Contents:

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 café and Jerusalem's prince of idleness.