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Standing by the Ruins : Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon /
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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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Plates; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliterations; Introduction: Shoring These Ruins against My Fragments; A Pioneer of the Present; Cultural Knock-on; Mythic Utopian Futures; Elegiac Pasts; Elegiac Humanism; A Culture in Ruins; 1. Absence at the Heart of Yearning: Civil War and Postwar Novels; Ruins and Elegy in The House of Mathilde (Binayat Mathilde); Decay of Elegy in The Stone of Laughter (Hajar al-Dahik); Ruins Redeemed in Dear Mr Kawabata ('Azizi al-Sayyid Kawabata); Anti-Ruin in Ya Salam (Good Heavens).
- Limits of Elegy in Berytus: Madina taht al-Ard (Berytus: City Underground)Conclusion: Learning to Yearn; 2. "Speak, Ruins!": The Work of Nostalgia in Feature Film; Ruins of Conviviality in Beirut: The Meeting (Bayrut, al-Liqa'); Ruin and De-education in Beyond Life (Hors la vie); Living among the Ruins in The Pink House (al-Bayt al-Zahr); Recycling Ruin in In the Shadows of the City (Tayf al-Madina); If These Ruins Could Speak in When Maryam Spoke (Lamma Hikyit Maryam); Conclusion: Elegiac Self-Consciousness; 3. Elegiac Humanism and Popular Politics: The Independence Uprising of 2005.
- A Grammar of GrievingRecoding Mourning, Popular Culture, and Politics; Oratorical and Democratic Discourses; Sectarian to National Consciousness; Conclusion: Ruins of a Humanistic Resistance; Conclusion: "We're All Hezbollah Now"; Appendix: A Selected Bibliography of Lebanese War Novels; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.