Standing by the Ruins : : Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon / / Ken Seigneurie.
Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinctive aesthetic of res...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Plates
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliterations
- Introduction: Shoring These Ruins against My Fragments
- 1. Absence at the Heart of Yearning: Civil War and Postwar Novels
- 2. “Speak, Ruins!”: The Work of Nostalgia in Feature Film
- 3. Elegiac Humanism and Popular Politics: The Independence Uprising of 2005
- Conclusion: “We’re All Hezbollah Now”
- Appendix: A Selected Bibliography of Lebanese War Novels
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index