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Author Larkin, Craig

Title Memory and Conflict in Lebanon : Remembering and Forgetting the Past
Published Hoboken : Taylor & amp ; Francis, 2012

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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
Notes Print version record
Subject Youth and war -- Lebanon
Collective memory -- Lebanon
Politics and war -- Lebanon
Peace-building -- Lebanon
Collective memory
Peace-building
Politics and government
Politics and war
Youth and war
SUBJECT Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98002763
Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Psychological aspects
Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Social aspects
Subject Lebanon
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203137970
0203137973