History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from September 2006

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from September 2006

Introduction.(History & Memory's Tania Forte)
September 22, 2006... This issue of History & Memory has been long in the making. Its guest editor Tania Forte, who initiated and began working on the project, was unable to complete it. Her sudden, premature death last year robbed us of a precious, unique voice in...

Home as a refrain: remembering and living displacement in Gaza.
September 22, 2006... This article explores the "refrain of home" among Palestinian refugees in Gaza in the first years after their displacement in 1948. Relying on narrative accounts of the 1948 war and its aftermath, it traces people's changing relations with...

Scripting for Hollywood: power, performance and the heroic imagination in Abu Hanna's "real Arabian nights".
September 22, 2006... This article explores narratives of heroism among Palestinians in the Galilee in order to address broader concerns about the workings of historical transformation and the power of creative agency, the nature of historical consciousness and its...

The fate of abandoned Arab villages in Israel, 1965-1969.(Israel Archaeological Survey Society)
September 22, 2006... In spring 1965 the Israel Land Administration (ILA) initiated the demolition of houses in Arab villages that had been abandoned during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, a project that was subsequently extended to the territories occupied by Israel in...

The polyvalent politics of martyr commemorations in the Palestinian intifada.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... During the second Palestinian intifada (uprising), which began in September 2000, martyr funerals and posters were the most predominant form of memorialization. These practices did not constitute simple expressions of nationalist sentiment;...

Familial snapshots: representing Palestine in the work of the first local photographers.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... This essay examines the ways in which the introduction of photography as a local practice in Palestine from the late nineteenth century affected the way Palestinians saw, imagined and presented themselves in photographs. The essay narrates the...

Tania Forte's difference.
September 22, 2006... Tania Forte valued writing the fictional, the autobiographical, the scientific. She strove to weave these routes together in shaping her life's journey through anthropology, though this did not yet emerge in her writing. Here I juxtapose three...