Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya

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History & Biographies
New
The Palestine Nakba
Decolonising History, Narrating the
Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory
Nur Masalha
2012 marks the 64 th anniversary of the
Nakba-the most traumatic catastrophe
that ever befell Palestinians. This book
explores new ways of remembering and
commemorating the Nakba. In the context
of Palestinian oral history, it explores
‘social history from below’, subaltern
narratives of memory and the formation
of collective identity. Masalha argues that to write
more truthfully about the Nakba is not just to practice
a professional historiography but an ethical imperative.
The struggles of ordinary refugees to recover and
publicly assert the truth about the Nakba is a vital way
of protecting their rights and keeping the hope for peace
with justice alive. This book is essential for understanding
the place of the Palestine Nakba at the heart of the
Israel-Palestine conflict and the vital role of memory in
narratives of narratives of truth and reconciliation.
Publisher: Zed Books
2012: 288 pp
ISBN: 9781848139701: RM110.00 / S$47.85
New
Palestinian Women
Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory
Fatma Kassem
Palestinian Women is the first book to
examine and document the experiences
and historical narrative of ordinary
Palestinian women who witnessed the
events of 1948 and became involuntary
citizens of the State of Israel. Known in
Palestinian discourse as the Nakba, or
the Catastrophe, these events of sixty
years ago still powerfully resonate
in contemporary Palestinian-Jewish relations. Told in
their own words, the women’s experiences serve as
a window for examining the complex intersections of
gender, nationalism and citizenship amidst ongoing violent
political conflict. In narrating these stories, Palastinian
Women argues that the realm of memory is a site of
commemoration and resistance.
Publisher: Zed Books
2011: 264 pp
ISBN: 9781848134249: RM95.00 / S$41.30
New
Sun Yat-Sen
Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution
Edited by Lee Lai To and Lee Hock Guan
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Catalogue 2012
In view of the 100 th anniversary of the
1911 Revolution and Sun Yat-Sen’s
relations with the Nanyang communities,
the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
and the Chinese Heritage Centre
came together to host a two-day
bilingual conference on the three-way
relationships between Sun Yat-Sen,
Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution in
October 2010 in Singapore. This volume is a collection
of papers in English presented at the conference. While
there are extensive research and voluminous publications
on Sun Yat-Sen and the 1911 Revolution, it was felt that
less had been done on the Southeast Asian connections.
Thus this volume offers not only some original and at
times provocative analysis on Sun Yat-Sen and the 1911
Revolution but also contributions from selected Southeast
Asian countries.
Publisher: ISEAS & CHC
2011: 317 pp
ISBN: 9789814345453: RM100.00 / S$39.90
New
Revolutionary Spirit
Jose Rizal in Southeast Asia
John Nery
Like his great contemporaries Sun
Yat-sen and Mohandas K. Gandhi,
the Philippine patriot and polymath
Jose Rizal (1861-1896) helped
write the history of freedom in Asia.
His two subversive novels and an
immortal last poem helped inspire
the first nationalist revolution on the
continent and led to the founding of
the first Asian republic.
But what was Rizal's impact on the nationalist awakening
in Southeast Asia? This book argues that by infusing
a revolutionary spirit into the struggle to create a
Philippine nation in the late 19th century, Rizal ended up
helping invigorate Indonesian nationalism and Malaysian
scholarship, regional political discourse and world
literature, in the 20th - and remains must reading in the
21st.
Publisher: ISEAS
2011: 280 pp
ISBN: 9789814345057: RM96.00 / S$39.90