Palestine’s absent cities: Gender, memoricide and the silencing of urban palestinian memory

Manar Hasan

doi:10.3366/hlps.2019.0200

Palestine’s absent cities: Gender, memoricide and the silencing of urban palestinian memory

Manar Hasan

Program of Gender Studies

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Abstract

Before the Nakba a significant process of urbanisation had occurred in Palestine, leading to substantial changes in gender relations and women’s status. However, following the 1948 war, the existence of a vibrant urban social and gendered reality in Palestine was dismissed and erased, by both Palestinian and Zionist narratives; it was replaced by exclusively rural memory. This article analyses how Palestinian society in Israel accepted the Zionist version of history, according to which the modernisation of Arab society in Israel, especially gendered modernity, resulted from Jewish proximity and steps adopted by the state.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-20
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3366/hlps.2019.0200
State	Published - 1 May 2019

Keywords

Ben-gurion
British mandate
Collective memory
Gender relations
Memoricide
Palestine
Palestinian nakba
Rural memory
Urbanisation
Zionism

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Literature and Literary Theory

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Palestine’s absent cities: Gender, memoricide and the silencing of urban palestinian memory

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