Memorials and martyrs in modern Lebanon
By: Lucia Volk
Series: Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780253355232; 9780253222305
Subjects: Nationalism and collective memory; Martyrs; Memorials; Ethnic relations; Monuments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of memory in Lebanon: sectarianism, memorials, and martyrdom; title: Sculpting independence: competing ceremonies and mutilated faces (1915-1957); title: Remembering civil wars: fearless faces and wounded bodies (1958-1995); title: Reconstructing while re-destructing Lebanon: dismembered bodies and national unity (1996-2003); title: Revisiting independence and mobilizing resistance: assassinations, massacres, and divided memory-scapes (2004-2006); title: Memorial politics and national imaginings: possibilities and limits.