Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) |
Contents |
Front Cover; Memory and Conflict in Lebanon; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on language; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: beyond the war?; 2. Locating a postmemory generation; 3. Contesting Lebanon: history, identity and co-existence; 4. (Re)imagining the nation: school, street and the 'Independence Intifada'; 5. Space, place and site: inhabiting post-war memoryscapes; 6. Time, story and myth: narrating Lebanon's future; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
This book examines the legacy of Lebanon's civil war and how the population, and the youth in particular, are dealing with their national past. Drawing on extensive qualitative research and social observation, the author explores the efforts of those who wish to remember, so as not to repeat past mistakes, and those who wish to forget. In considering how the Lebanese youth are negotiating this collective memory, Larkin addresses issues of: Lebanese post-war amnesia and the gradual emergence of new memory discourses and public debates Lebanese nationalism and historical memory visual memory and |
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Print version record |
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Youth and war -- Lebanon
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Collective memory -- Lebanon
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Politics and war -- Lebanon
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Peace-building -- Lebanon
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Collective memory
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Peace-building
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Politics and government
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Politics and war
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Youth and war
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SUBJECT |
Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98002763
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Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Psychological aspects
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Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Social aspects
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Lebanon
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780203137970 |
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0203137973 |
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