Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-337) and index.

Introduction : the claims of memory / Lila Abu-Lughod and Ahmad H. S adi -- Places of memory. The rape of Qula, a destroyed Palestinian vill age / Susan Slyomovics -- Mapping the past, recreating the homeland : m emories of village places in pre-1948 Palestine / Rochelle Davis -- Ret urn to half-ruins: memory, postmemory, and living history in Palestine / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Modes of memory. Iterability, cumulativity and pre sence : the relational figures of Palestinian memory / Lena Jayyusi -- Women's nakba stories : between being and knowing / Rosemary Sayigh -- The continuity of trauma and struggle : recent cinematic representation s of the nakba / Haim Bresheeth -- Faultlines of memory : The secret vi sitations of memory / Omar Al-Qattan -- Gender of nakba memory / Isabel le Humphries and Laleh Khalili -- Memories of conquest : witnessing dea th in Tantura / Samera Esmeir -- The politics of witness : remembering and forgetting 1948 in Shatila camp / Diana Keown Allan -- Afterword : reflections on representations, history, and moral accountability / Ahm ad Sadi.