Second Life : A West Bank Memoir.
Title:
Second Life : A West Bank Memoir.
Author:
Gunn, Janet Varner.
ISBN:
9780816686209
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- The Abu Aker Family -- Foreword: "Our Blood Will Plant Its Olive Tree" -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: An Autobiographical Experiment -- Part I. A Second Life -- Chapter 1. The "Living Martyr" -- Chapter 2. The Deheishe Story -- Chapter 3. "What Does It Mean Human?" -- Chapter 4. Through the Looking-Glass in Cairo -- Part II. Three Returns -- Chapter 5. First Return: Mourning a Martyr -- Chapter 6. Second Return: After the Gulf War -- Chapter 7. Third Return: Violating and Transforming Space -- Epilogue: Crossing Borders -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This memoir recounts the time the author spent as a human rights worker on the West Bank. In a moving meditation on the many forms of both autobiography and resistance to power, Gunn tells the story of a Palestinian teenager who was critically shot during a stone-throwing demonstration and deemed a "living martyr" of the Intifada.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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