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A City in Fragments
Author | : Yair Wallach |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781503611146 |
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the city; new texts became a key means to organize society and subjectivity. Stone inscriptions, pilgrims' graffiti, and sacred banners gave way to street markers, shop signs, identity papers, and visiting cards that each sought to define and categorize urban space and people. A City in Fragments tells the modern history of a city overwhelmed by its religious and symbolic significance. Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera that transformed the city over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As these urban texts became a tool in the service of capitalism, nationalism, and colonialism, the affinities of Arabic and Hebrew were forgotten and these sister-languages found themselves locked in a bitter war. Looking at the writing of—and literally on—Jerusalem, Wallach offers a creative and expansive history of the city, a fresh take on modern urban texts, and a new reading of the Israel/Palestine conflict through its material culture.
Fragments of the City
Author | : Colin McFarlane |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520382237 |
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Pursuing fragments -- Pulling together, falling apart -- Knowing fragments -- Writing in fragments -- Political framings -- Walking cities -- In completion.
Another World Or Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
Author | : Benjamin Lumley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Mars (Planet) |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105213333268 |
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The Fragments
Author | : Toni Jordan |
Publsiher | : Text Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781925774047 |
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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Addition and Nine Days, a superbly crafted and captivating literary mystery about a lost book and a secret love.
Fragments of the European City
Author | : Stephen Barber |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0948462663 |
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Compares the social life and urban landscape of Berlin with those of other cities in Europe.
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
Author | : Kevin R. McNamara |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107028036 |
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This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Beirut Fragments
Author | : Jean Said Makdisi |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 089255245X |
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A new edition of the widely acclaimed account of the civilian experience of fifteen years of war in Beirut- "a profound, heartbreaking book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), "an impassioned cry against indifference" (New York Times Book Review), "a work ringing with truth and insight" (Arab Book World)-now with an Afterword about the postwar years. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An intensely personal yet timelessly crafted portrait of life in a worn-torn city, Beirut Fragments spans the years of the civil war in Lebanon, 1975-1990. When thousands fled, Jean Said Makdisi chose to stay. She raised three sons, taught English and Humanities at Beirut University College-and she wrote. She records the breakdown of society and the physical destruction of Beirut, the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, the Israeli Invasion, everyday acts of terrorism, the struggle to maintain ordinary routines amid chaos, and the incredible spirit of a people. A Palestinian, a Christian, a woman who has lived in Jerusalem, Cairo, the United States, and Beirut, Jean Said Makdisi uses the migrations of her own life as a paradigm which helps elucidate many of the conflicts in the region. The new afterword covers the postwars years, from the last ceasefire to the present day.
Fragments of Colossae
Author | : Alan Cadwallader |
Publsiher | : ATF Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-09-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781925232554 |
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An engagingly visual guide book to a lost city from a scholar in the forefront of research on Colossae. Alan Cadwallader distils information, insights and interpretation into a rich collection of evidence from Colossae and its environs, giving us access to a fascinating and under-researched city. Together with a significant chapter by Rosemary Canavan, Cadwallader's often ground-breaking work gives us unprecedented access into the life and context of this city. A book for all who enjoy time travel with expert guides!