War and memory in Lebanon
By: Sune Haugbolle
Series: Cambridge Middle East studies -- 34; Cambridge Middle East studies -- 34.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521199025
Description: "From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon endured one of the most protracted and bloody civil wars of the twentieth century. Sune Haugbolle's timely and often poignant book chronicles the battle over ideas that emerged from the wreckage of that war. While the Lebanese state encouraged forgetfulness and political parties created sectarian interpretations of the war through cults of dead leaders, intellectuals and activists--inspired by the example of truth and reconciliation movements in different parts of the world--advanced the idea that confronting and remembering the war was necessary for political and cultural renewal. Through an analysis of different cultural productions--media, art, literature, film, posters, and architecture--the author shows how the recollection and reconstruction of political and sectarian violence that took place during the war have helped in Lebanon's healing process. He also shows how a willingness to confront the past influenced the popular uprising in Lebanon after the assassination of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: A hiatus of history; title: Remembering a war of selves and others; title: Culture, politics, civil war; title: Discourses on amnesia and reconstruction : memory in the 1990s; title: Nostalgias; title: Inside violence; title: Sectarian memory cultures; title: Truth telling in the Independence Intifada.