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Beirut, imagining the city : space and place in Lebanese literature /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
I.B. Tauris,
2015.
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| Colección: | WCI (London, England) ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 nat. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857736703 0857736701 9780857725325 0857725327 |