Research Catalog

Title

The Lebanese post-civil war novel : memory, trauma, and capital / Felix Lang.

Author

Lang, Felix, 1985-

Publication

• Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

vi, 263 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "After the Lebanese Civil War, many of Lebanon's best known novelists committed themselves to building a "memory for the future." More than twenty years later, Elias Khoury's and Rashid al-Daif's postwar novels rank among the most important texts in contemporary Arabic literature and a new generation of authors has begun writing about the civil war. The role of collective and individual trauma seems to be central to this development. However, as this book will show, the Lebanese Post-civil war novel is a response not so much to trauma, but to the forces at work in the literary field. From the book market to literary prizes and the similarity of the writers' biographies and socio-economic backgrounds, a number of factors worked in favor of novels offering a literary war narrative for Lebanon's secular upper-middle class"--
• "A study of the Lebanese post-civil war novel and the social space in which it developed, this book seeks to go beyond notions of individual and collective trauma in explaining the paramount importance of "war novels" in Lebanese literary production"--

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict

Subject

• Civil War (Lebanon : 1975-1990)
• 1975 - 1990
• Arabic fiction > Lebanon > History and criticism
• War in literature
• Collective memory in literature
• Psychic trauma in literature
• Lebanese fiction (French) > History and criticism
• Arabic fiction
• Lebanese fiction (French)
• War and literature
• Lebanon > History > Literature and the war. > Civil War, 1975-1990
• Lebanon

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Arabic.

Contents

Introduction -- PART I: THE LEBANESE LITERARY FIELD -- 1. Newspapers, Prizes and Politics: The Field's Institutions and the Global and Regional Context -- 2. The Values of the Field: What Makes a Good Novel in Lebanon? -- PART II: "WE'RE ALL IN THE DARK" -- THE FIRST GENERATION OF (POST)WAR AUTHORS -- 3. The Civil War Novel and the Break with Tradition -- 4. Revolutionaries Turned Writers: A Secular Left-Wing Habitus -- 5. Destruction and Deconstruction: Forms of Literary Remembering -- PART III: GHOSTS IN THE ARCHIVE -- THE SECOND GENERATION OF POSTWAR AUTHORS -- 6. The Civil War Novel as Gateway to the Literary Field -- 7. Humanist Commitment: A New Habitus -- 8. Archive, Trauma and Reconstruction: New Forms of Literary Remembering -- Conclusion: Whose Truth, Whose Power? -- Appendix A: List of Authors -- Appendix B: List of Novels.

Call Number

JFD 16-567

ISBN

• 9781137559883
• 1137559888
• 9781137555151 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781137555175 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015020273

OCLC

933584508

Author

Lang, Felix, 1985- author.

Title

The Lebanese post-civil war novel : memory, trauma, and capital / Felix Lang.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.

Language

Text in English and Arabic.

Chronological Term

1975 - 1990

Research Call Number

JFD 16-567