ISBN:
9789004519770
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 246 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Mobilizing memories volume 4
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cultural memory of the Lebanese Civil War
DDC:
956.9204/4
Keywords:
Collective memory
;
Bürgerkriege
;
Cultural studies
;
Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
;
HIS027250
;
HISTORY / Middle East / General
;
HISTORY / Social History
;
Kulturwissenschaften
;
LIT025060
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
;
Literary studies: general
;
Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
;
Middle Eastern history
;
Military history
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
;
Social & cultural history
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
Lebanon History Civil War, 1975-1990
;
Social aspects
;
Lebanon
;
Libanon
Abstract:
"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. In 1991, the Amnesty Law G84/91 was enacted, granting state power impunity for all war crimes, including crimes against humanity. The general amnesty entailed partial amnesia; the war was to be "officially" forgotten. And yet, since the 1990s, nongovernmental organizations, archives, activists, publicists, visual artists, filmmakers, and writers have produced an impressive alternative culture of remembrance of the Lebanese Civil War, which is revisited and analyzed in this book. Contributors represent a multi-disciplinary mix, with perspectives from area studies, history, social science, literary studies, trauma and memory, and peace and conflict studies"--
Abstract:
This volume is an overview of the cultural memory of the Lebanese Civil War as it has emerged over the last 30 years. Thechapters cover different discourses; narratives; and media such as archives, films, photographs, literature, and artisticinstallations
Description / Table of Contents:
The Lebanon War (1975-1990) between the local and the global. Civil War or "glocal" war? / Dima de Clerck -- Hushed zones : the Fakhani Republic in Lebanese-Palestinian historical memory / Sune Haugbolle -- War in boxes? Archiving in today's Lebanon / Leyla Dakhli -- Between medium and mediality screening hope and memory in Lebanon / Norman Saadi Nikro -- Transiting Beirut's post-Civil War cultural memory / Claire Launchbury -- Co-producers of countermemory : the role of literary scholars in constructing the literary memory of the Lebanese Civil War / Felix Lang -- Will the Lebanese Civil War ever die? The contemporary realities in/of anglophone writings and the visual arts / Syrine Hout -- Saying the war in contemporary Lebanese literary and artistic practices : a few examples / Nayla Tamraz -- On a vacuum and how to fill it : literature at the bedside of failed institutions / Sandra Barrère -- German literature and the Lebanese Civil War. Notes on Pierre Jarawan's German-Lebanese migration novels / Klaus Wieland -- Lebanon's October Revolution (al-thawra 17 tishrin) and the Civil War. Memory, protests, and mobilization / Craig Larkin.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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