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

Author/creator Tamārī, Salīm
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2009.
Descriptionxi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Palestinian Arabs--Intellectual life. --20th century.
Palestine--Social life and customs. --20th century.
Palestine--Civilization.

Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 caf's and Jerusalem's prince of idleness.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-221) and index.
LCCN 2008021097
ISBN9780520251298 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520251296 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks DS 112 .T36 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold