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Youth and conflict in Israel-Palestine : storytelling, contested space and the politics of memory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biggs, Victoria (Author)
Corporate Author: Bloomsbury (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London [England] : I.B. Tauris, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Youth, Palestinian Arab > Israel > Social conditions > 21st century.
Jewish youth > Israel > Social conditions > 21st century.
Storytelling > Social aspects.
Youth, Palestinian Arab > West Bank > Social conditions > 21st century.
Youth, Palestinian Arab > Gaza Strip > Social conditions > 21st century.
Political violence > West Bank.
Political violence > Israel.
Political violence > Gaza Strip.
2000-2099
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Once Upon an Intifada
  • At the Edge of Known Stories
  • Field Sites and Fault Lines
  • Story against Narrative
  • Young People as Storytellers
  • Language
  • and the Hidden Landscape
  • Fairy Tale as an Idiom of Terror
  • A Lexicon of Symbols
  • Mother Tongues and Other Tongues
  • Violence
  • in the Narration of Self and Other
  • Face to Face: the Fundamental Violence of Storytelling
  • Storytelling as Self-Expression and Suppression
  • Purity in Narrative? Storytelling as Transgression
  • "What Do They Tell About Us?"
  • Forbidden
  • Histories in Contested Spaces
  • Narrative Drifts into Forbidden Terrain
  • Topographies of Forbidden History in Israel/Palestine
  • "Until the Seventh Wave": The Liquid Borders of Memory
  • Happily Ever After? Telling
  • Endings
  • Unfinished Houses
  • The Sense of an Ending: Making Meaning through Narrative Structure
  • "To Make the Dream Come True" : Ending Political Violence
  • Ending the Research: Central Themes and Patterns
  • Bibliography
  • Index