عنوان

The Social Life of the Bayanat of the First Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993): Revolutionary Rupture and Nostalgia in Post/Colonial Times

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انگلیسی

The Social Life of the Bayanat of the First Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993): Revolutionary Rupture and Nostalgia in Post/Colonial Times

[Thesis]

Thayer  Hastings

Tucker, Judith

Georgetown University

2017

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Committee members: Colla, Elliott

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-79016-0

M.A.

Arab Studies

Georgetown University

2017

In the first Palestinian Intifada of 1987-1993, dozens of serial bayanat (communiques) circulated in a revolutionary context based on mass participation. These were illicit texts outlawed by the Israeli state. The bayanat issued calls for action, organized everyday life during the uprising, documented events and announced upcoming demonstrations. Since the 1990s, the bayanat took on a life of their own and have come to embody how the event of the first Intifada lives on in the collective memory of Palestinians. By narrating continuity, contemporary speech acts attempt to create a direct relationship to the first Intifada and thereby to reanimate the politics of that period. They also formulate the rupturing effect of the Intifada as a counter-structure to settler colonialism and not an event. Doing so reveals the cycle of Intifadas (I, II, III, etc.) as a continuous condition of Palestinian life.

Middle Eastern literature; Middle Eastern Studies; Medieval history

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Bayanat;First Intifada;Israel;Materiality;Palestine;Social life

Silberman, Alex William

Tucker, Judith

Arab Studies

Georgetown University

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