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Author Hayek, Ghenwa, author

Title Beirut, imagining the city : space and place in Lebanese literature / Ghenwa Hayek
Published London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Written culture and identity ; 2
WCI (London, England) ; 2.
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: From Mount Lebanon to Beirut: The Shifting Landscapes of Lebanese Fiction; 1. Inhospitable Spaces: City and Village in Tawahin Bayrut and Tuyur Aylul; 2. A City Divided: Beirut in the (1975-90) Civil War; 3. Commemorative Countermemories: Beirut in 1990s Lebanese Fiction; 4. Tracing Beirut in Contemporary Historical Novels: Postmemory and the Urban Imaginary in Rabee Jaber and Alexandre Najjar
5. Beirut: Past, Present, Future? Memory and Anxiety in Contemporary Lebanese ComicsEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Back Cover
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Arabic fiction -- Lebanon -- History and criticism
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Arabic literature -- Lebanon -- History and criticism
Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Arabic literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Lebanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Lebanese literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
National characteristics in literature.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
Place (Philosophy) in literature
Arabic fiction
Arabic literature
Lebanese literature
Literature
National characteristics in literature
SUBJECT Beirut (Lebanon) -- In literature
Subject Lebanon
Lebanon -- Beirut
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857736703
0857736701
9780857725325
0857725327
Other Titles Space and place in Lebanese literature