Dissident Syria
Subtitle: making oppositional arts official
By: Miriam Cooke.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822340164; 9780822340355
Subjects: Dissenters, Artistic -- Syria; Art -- Political aspects -- Syria; Arabic literature -- Syria -- History and criticism; Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Syria -- Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: "Culture is humanity's highest need" / As if . . . / Slogans, slogans everywhere; title: Freedom and democracy; title: Our literature does not leave the country / Nadia al-Ghazzi / Colette al-Khuri; title: No such thing as women's literature / Ulfat Idilbi / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani / Nadia Khust and the Nadwa; title: Commissioned criticism / Culture after the Fall of the Wall / Commissioned criticism / The fantasy of choice; title: Dissident performances / Performing dissidence / The ghoul /; title: Historical miniatures; title: Filming dreams / The extras / Dreaming features / Documenting dreams; title: Lighten your step / Ibrahim Samuil / Waiting / Ghassan al-Jaba'i / Lessons from a rogue state; title: Leaving Damascus; title: Postscript; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.