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Tables of Contents for Memories of Our Future
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Local Politics: The Background as Foreword
ix
Ammiel Alcalay
Acknowledgments
xvii
Five Hundred Years After: What Was Left Unsaid about Sepharad
xxi
Juan Goytisolo
PRELUDES: AN OPENING
``weighing the losses, like stones in your hand''
3
18
Atonement
21
6
OF BOOKS AND CITIES/ THE JOURNEY
My Mediterranean
27
4
The Quill's Embroidery: Untangling a Tradition
31
12
The Quill's Embroidery: Poetry, Tradition, and the ``Postmodern''
43
4
Paris / New York / Jerusalem: The Unscheduled Flight of Edmond Jabes and Jacques Derrida
47
4
Perplexity Index
51
4
Desert Solitaire: On Edmond Jabes
55
5
For Edouard Roditi
60
4
Behind the Scenes: Before After Jews and Arabs
64
25
FORBIDDEN TERRITORIES, PROMISED LANDS
On Arabesques
89
6
After the Last Sky
95
4
Who's Afraid of Mahmoud Darwish?
99
6
Israel and the Levant: ``Wounded Kinship's Last Resort''
105
8
Forbidden Territory, Promised Lands
113
8
In True Colors
121
4
Culture without a Country
125
5
Too Much Past
130
3
The State of the Gulf: Abdelrahman Munif and Hanan al-Shaykh
133
7
Our Memory Has No Future: On Etel Adnan
140
6
``The war was ending, the diasporas beginning''
146
9
DISPATCHES
A Stitch in Time
155
4
Court Report: Prolonging a Farce
159
4
The Trial: A Real Farce
163
10
``Ay, de mi aljama'': Palestinians and Israelis Meet, in Spain!
173
5
Israel / Palestine 101: A Letter to Robert Creeley
178
8
Quality Control
186
9
Ushering in the New Order: Repercussions from the Gulf War
195
7
Reflections at the End of 1992
202
3
Why Israel?
205
6
THE RETURN: VARIATIONS ON A THEME
Understanding Revolution
211
11
Exploding Identities: Notes on Ethnicity and Literary History
222
14
Speaking with Forked Tongues, or Parables of Equilibrium
236
5
Diasporas / Exiles
241
8
STOPS ALONG THE WAY: SELECTED INTERVIEWS
The Alcalay Dictionary of Levantine Culture
249
7
Interview with Ammiel Alcalay by Zlatko Dizdarevic
256
9
ON THE HOME FRONT: FOR/ZA SARAJEVO
Under Siege
265
7
Bearing Witness
272
5
European Ghosts, Bosnian Corpses
277
9
For/Za Sarajevo
286
4
``All the time in the world...''
290