The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel [electronic resource] : Memory, Trauma, and Capital /
Lang, Felix.author.
After the Lebanese Civil War, many Lebanese novelists committed themselves to building a "memory for the future." What resulted was a vital contribution to the legacy of contemporary Arabic literature. Through interviews, literary analysis, and the lens of trauma studies, Lang sheds light on what it means to remember through post-war literature.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transcription and Translation; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Part I The Lebanese Literary Field; 1 Newspapers, Prizes, and Politics: The Field's Institutions and the Global and Regional Context; 2 The Values of the Field: What Makes a Good Novel in Lebanon?; Part II "We're All in the Dark"-The First Generation of (Post)War Authors; 3 The Civil War Novel and the Break with Tradition; 4 Revolutionaries Turned Writers: A Secular Left-Wing Habitus; 5 Destruction and Deconstruction: Forms of Literary Remembering
Part III Ghosts in the Archive-The Second Generation of Postwar Authors6 The Civil War Novel as Gateway to the Literary Field; 7 Humanist Commitment: A New Habitus; 8 Archive, Trauma, and Reconstruction: New Forms of Literary Remembering; Conclusion: Whose Truth, Whose Power?; Appendix A: List of Authors; Appendix B: List of Novels; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
After the Lebanese Civil War, many Lebanese novelists committed themselves to building a "memory for the future." What resulted was a vital contribution to the legacy of contemporary Arabic literature. Through interviews, literary analysis, and the lens of trauma studies, Lang sheds light on what it means to remember through post-war literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Middle Eastern literature.
Ethnology—Middle East .
Literature—History and criticism.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Middle Eastern Literature.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Literary History.