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Ghenwa Hayek

Beirut, Imagining the City

Space and Place in Lebanese Literature. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,6 cm / 14,0 cm / 1,5 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 282 Seiten
EAN 9781838607067
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2019
Verlag/Hersteller I.B. Tauris
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Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon. But to what extent has the city affected and shaped the formation and perceptions of Lebanese national identity? Ghenwa Hayek here explores how anxieties over the past, present and future of Beirut have been articulated through a sense of dislocation present in Lebanese writing since the 1960s. Drawing on theories of cultural studies, geography and history, the author uses an interdisciplinary framework to explore the role that spaces - from rural to urban - have played and continue to play in the defining, and re-defining, of national identity in the seventy years since the creation of the Lebanese nation state. This theoretical perspective coupled with a close reading of little-explored contemporary writings lead Hayek to question the predominant assumption that Lebanese novelists only became engaged in discourses about place identity and individual and social belonging with the start of the fifteen-year civil war and the destruction of Beirut's city centre. Instead, the book shows that particular geographical imaginaries have been mobilized to describe, question and debate Lebanese identity since the 1960s and that some go back even further into the late nineteenth century. This re-reading calls for a re-evaluation of some of the most predominant assumptions about Lebanon and the processes of Lebanese identity formation across the country's modern history. Examining a wide range of modern and contemporary literature, Hayek charts the rise to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter One: The Shifting Landscapes of Lebanese Fiction Chapter Two: Inhospitable Spaces: City and Village in ?awa??n Bayr?t and ?uy?r Ayl?l Chapter Three: A City Divided: Beirut in the Lebanese Civil War Chapter Four: Commemorative Counter-memories: Beirut in 1990s Fiction Chapter 5: Tracing Beirut in Contemporary Historical Novels Conclusion: Beirut: Past, Present and Future

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