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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Shihab, Aziz (1927-2007)
Titre(s) : Does the land remember me? [Texte imprimé] : a memoir of Palestine / Aziz Shihab ; with a foreword by Persis M. Karim
Publication : Syracuse (N.Y.) : Syracuse university press, cop. 2011
Description matérielle : xxiii, 149 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection : Arab American writing
Lien à la collection : Arab American writing
Note(s) : A vivid and beautifully crafted chronicle of an exile's return to Palestine. Summoned
by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his
family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and
to a country no longer that of his youth in a nation whose estate has been challenged
by history. This gripping book chronicles that month-long journey. Part memoir, part
travelogue, it reveals the complexities of leaving behind such the past and coming
to grips with its abandonment. With his sharp ear for dialogue and with a journalist's
eye, Shihab records and considers, sometimes with fond humor, the Palestinian psyche.
Family meetings brim with soothing time-honored ritual and cultural blindness. Pungent
street anecdotes resonate with profound themes like human rights, land dislocation,
and poverty. Shihab's stories of departure and return, loss of land and reconnection
provide enriching insights into the depth and intricacy of Palestinian culture and
history and its legacy of displacement. -- Book Description
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Karim, Persis M.. Préfacier
Sujet(s) : Américains d'origine arabe -- Journalistes
Conflit israélo-arabe
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Littérature d'exil
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 081560968X. - ISBN 9780815609681 (br.). - ISBN 9780815608622 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb425139152
Notice n° :
FRBNF42513915
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