The Lebanese post-civil war novel : memory, trauma, and capital /
"A study of the Lebanese post-civil war novel and the social space in which it developed, this book seeks to go beyond notions of individual and collective trauma in explaining the paramount importance of "war novels" in Lebanese literary production"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : 2016 |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict
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Table of Contents:
- 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 AUTHORS
- 6. 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