Book
Memories of revolt: the 1936-1939 rebellion and the Palestinian national past
University of Arkansas Press • Fayetteville, Ark. • Published In 2003 • Pages:
By: Swedenburg, Ted.
Abstract
This is a study of popular memory of the Great Revolt of 1936-1939. Swedenburg interviews elderly fighters involved in the rebellion. He discovers that their stories are affected by Israeli repression of Palestinain memory and history. Also, there is an effort by the elderly MUJÂHIDÎN 'to protect the Palestinian image and to project a history of national unity and propriety' (p. xxvii) and not expose their 'society's fault lines.' Swedenburg's challenge is to read between the lines and discern the 'fractured history' of the revolt and account for the silences, dissimulations, and avoidances of 'active forgetting.' By hearing various accounts of a similar events he is also able to reconstruct a plausible history that reveals the complexity of internal struggles that occurred within the revolt, without discrediting the movement as a whole.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field Date
- 1984-1985
- Coverage Date
- 1929-1989
- Coverage Place
- Israel and Occupied Territories
- Notes
- Ted Swedenburg
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-258) and index
- LCCN
- 2003050733
- LCSH
- Palestinian Arabs