The Cultural Memory of the Lebanese Civil War-Revisited /

The Cultural Memory of the Lebanese Civil War-Revisited /

This volume, edited by Leyla Dakhli and Klaus Wieland, is an overview of the cultural memory of the Lebanese Civil War, as it has emerged and evolved over the last 30 years. These narratives represent a counter-memory to the non-existent national memory, undesired by Lebanon's political class....

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Other Authors: Dakhli, Leyla (Editor), Wieland, Klaus (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Mobilizing Memories ; 4.

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Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Leyla Dakhli and Klaus Wieland
  • Part 1:Fragmented Memories
  • 1 The Lebanon War (1975-1990) between the Local and the Global. Civil War or "Glocal" War?
  • Dima de Clerck
  • 2 Hushed Zones: the Fakhani Republic in Lebanese-Palestinian Historical Memory
  • Sune Haugbolle
  • Part 2: Material Traces - Archives, Documentaries, and Infrastructure
  • 3 War in Boxes? Archiving in Today's Lebanon
  • Leyla Dakhli
  • 4 Between Medium and Mediality Screening Hope and Memory in Lebanon
  • Norman Saadi Nikro
  • 5 Transiting Beirut's Post-Civil War Cultural Memory
  • Claire Launchbury
  • Part 3: Remembrance Literature
  • 6 Co-Producers of Countermemory: the Role of Literary Scholars in Constructing the Literary Memory of the Lebanese Civil War
  • Felix Lang
  • 7 Will the Lebanese Civil War Ever Die? the Contemporary Realities in/of Anglophone Writings and the Visual Arts
  • Syrine Hout
  • 8 Saying the War in Contemporary Lebanese Literary and Artistic Practices: a Few Examples
  • Nayla Tamraz
  • 9 On a Vacuum and How to Fill it: Literature at the Bedside of Failed Institutions
  • Sandra Barrère
  • 10 German Literature and the Lebanese Civil War. Notes on Pierre Jarawan's German-Lebanese Migration Novels
  • Klaus Wieland
  • Part 4: Outlook
  • 11 Lebanon's October Revolution ( al-thawra 17 tishrīn ) and the Civil War. Memory, Protests, and Mobilization
  • Craig Larkin
  • Index.