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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index