No Place for Grief – Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine

No Place for GriefMartyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine\nAuthor(s): Lotte Buch Segal\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812248210, 978-0812248210\nSynopsis\nAdvances an understanding of loss, mourning, and grief in contemporary Palestine\n Westerners 'know' Palestine through images of war and people in immediate distress. Yet this focus has as its consequence that other, less spectacular stories of daily distress are rarely told. Those seldom noticed are the women behind the men who engage in armed resistance against the military occupation: wives of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention and the widows of the martyrs. In Palestine, being related to a detainee serving a sentence for participation in the resistance activities against Israel is a source of pride. Consequently, the wives of detainees are expected to sustain these relationships through steadfas.