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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Lebanese Literary Field
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“We’re All in the Dark”—The First Generation of (Post)War Authors
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Ghosts in the Archive—The Second Generation of Postwar Authors
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
"This book is a well researched and serious study of two decades of Lebanese novelistic production in English, French, and Arabic. Lang's frank discussion of the forces at play in the Lebanese literary field brings out the grain of generational literary production in Lebanon. His deft analyses of the civil war theme acknowledges but goes beyond trauma theory and 'the memory industry.' His book will appeal to literary critics, anthropologists, and humanists interested in the cultural life of the Levant as well as those interested in next-generation trauma studies." - Ken Seigneurie, Professor of World Literature, Simon Fraser University, Canada
"Felix Lang brings together several theoretical tools, mainly -but not only- Pierre Bourdieu's sociological analysis of the literary field as a locus of struggle for symbolical power. We discover with this book how the notions of memory and trauma are being used and remodeled by these writers, and we feel compelled to read, re-read, or teach the great novels of the likes of Elias Khoury, Rachid El Daïf, Hoda Barakat or Rawi Hage from new perspectives." - Richard Jacquemond, Professor of Modern Arabic Language and Literature, Aix-Marseille Université, France
About the author
Felix Lang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Marburg, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel
Book Subtitle: Memory, Trauma, and Capital
Authors: Felix Lang
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137555175
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55988-3Published: 17 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55517-5Published: 28 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 263
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Middle Eastern Literature, Middle Eastern Culture, Literary History