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Author cooke, miriam

Title Dissident Syria : making oppositional arts official / Miriam Cooke
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Culture is humanity's highest need" / As if ... / Slogans, slogans everywhere -- Freedom and democracy -- Our literature does not leave the country / Nadia al-Ghazzi / Colette al-Khuri -- No such thing as women's literature / Ulfat Idilbi / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani / Nadia Khust and the Nadwa -- Commissioned criticism / Culture after the Fall of the Wall / Commissioned criticism / The fantasy of choice -- Dissident performances / Performing dissidence / The ghoul / -- Historical miniatures -- Filming dreams / The extras / Dreaming features / Documenting dreams -- Lighten your step / Ibrahim Samuil / Waiting / Ghassan al-Jaba'i / Lessons from a rogue state -- Leaving Damascus -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asad s Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Dissenters, Artistic -- Syria
Art -- Political aspects -- Syria
Arabic literature -- Syria -- History and criticism
Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Arabic literature
Art -- Political aspects
Dissenters, Artistic
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Syria -- Intellectual life
Subject Syria
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822390565
0822390566