Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya
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History & Biographies<br />
New<br />
The Palestine Nakba<br />
Decolonising History, Narrating the<br />
Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory<br />
Nur Masalha<br />
<strong>2012</strong> marks the 64 th anniversary of the<br />
Nakba-the most traumatic catastrophe<br />
that ever befell Palestinians. This book<br />
explores new ways of remembering and<br />
commemorating the Nakba. In the context<br />
of Palestinian oral history, it explores<br />
‘social history from below’, subaltern<br />
narratives of memory and the formation<br />
of collective identity. Masalha argues that to write<br />
more truthfully about the Nakba is not just to practice<br />
a professional historiography but an ethical imperative.<br />
The struggles of ordinary refugees to recover and<br />
publicly assert the truth about the Nakba is a vital way<br />
of protecting their rights and keeping the hope for peace<br />
with justice alive. This book is essential for understanding<br />
the place of the Palestine Nakba at the heart of the<br />
Israel-Palestine conflict and the vital role of memory in<br />
narratives of narratives of truth and reconciliation.<br />
Publisher: Zed Books<br />
<strong>2012</strong>: 288 pp<br />
ISBN: 9781848139701: RM110.00 / S$47.85<br />
New<br />
Palestinian Women<br />
Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory<br />
Fatma Kassem<br />
Palestinian Women is the first book to<br />
examine and document the experiences<br />
and historical narrative of ordinary<br />
Palestinian women who witnessed the<br />
events of 1948 and became involuntary<br />
citizens of the State of Israel. Known in<br />
Palestinian discourse as the Nakba, or<br />
the Catastrophe, these events of sixty<br />
years ago still powerfully resonate<br />
in contemporary Palestinian-Jewish relations. Told in<br />
their own words, the women’s experiences serve as<br />
a window for examining the complex intersections of<br />
gender, nationalism and citizenship amidst ongoing violent<br />
political conflict. In narrating these stories, Palastinian<br />
Women argues that the realm of memory is a site of<br />
commemoration and resistance.<br />
Publisher: Zed Books<br />
2011: 264 pp<br />
ISBN: 9781848134249: RM95.00 / S$41.30<br />
New<br />
Sun Yat-Sen<br />
Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution<br />
Edited by Lee Lai To and Lee Hock Guan<br />
Tel: +603 - 7957 8342/8343 Fax: +603 - 7954 9202 E-mail: sird@streamyx.com<br />
Website: www.gerakbudaya.com & bookshop.gbgerakbudaya.com<br />
<strong>Catalogue</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
In view of the 100 th anniversary of the<br />
1911 Revolution and Sun Yat-Sen’s<br />
relations with the Nanyang communities,<br />
the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies<br />
and the Chinese Heritage Centre<br />
came together to host a two-day<br />
bilingual conference on the three-way<br />
relationships between Sun Yat-Sen,<br />
Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution in<br />
October 2010 in Singapore. This volume is a collection<br />
of papers in English presented at the conference. While<br />
there are extensive research and voluminous publications<br />
on Sun Yat-Sen and the 1911 Revolution, it was felt that<br />
less had been done on the Southeast Asian connections.<br />
Thus this volume offers not only some original and at<br />
times provocative analysis on Sun Yat-Sen and the 1911<br />
Revolution but also contributions from selected Southeast<br />
Asian countries.<br />
Publisher: ISEAS & CHC<br />
2011: 317 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789814345453: RM100.00 / S$39.90<br />
New<br />
Revolutionary Spirit<br />
Jose Rizal in Southeast Asia<br />
John Nery<br />
Like his great contemporaries Sun<br />
Yat-sen and Mohandas K. Gandhi,<br />
the Philippine patriot and polymath<br />
Jose Rizal (1861-1896) helped<br />
write the history of freedom in Asia.<br />
His two subversive novels and an<br />
immortal last poem helped inspire<br />
the first nationalist revolution on the<br />
continent and led to the founding of<br />
the first Asian republic.<br />
But what was Rizal's impact on the nationalist awakening<br />
in Southeast Asia? This book argues that by infusing<br />
a revolutionary spirit into the struggle to create a<br />
Philippine nation in the late 19th century, Rizal ended up<br />
helping invigorate Indonesian nationalism and Malaysian<br />
scholarship, regional political discourse and world<br />
literature, in the 20th - and remains must reading in the<br />
21st.<br />
Publisher: ISEAS<br />
2011: 280 pp<br />
ISBN: 9789814345057: RM96.00 / S$39.90