Book by Rochelle A. Davis analyzes a genre of Palestinian literature, village history books (kutub al-qura), through which displaced Palestinians have documented the geography, history, social life, and destruction of their original villages since 1948. Davis examines how these self-published community histories function as acts of collective memory, identity preservation, and political claim-making by refugee communities. A contribution to the study of Palestinian memory and the grassroots historiography of the Nakba. Recommended for researchers in Palestinian studies and memory studies studying the genre of Palestinian village history books, grassroots historical documentation of the Nakba, and collective memory practices among displaced Palestinian communities.
