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Beirut, imagining the city : space and place in Lebanese literature / Ghenwa Hayek.

By: Hayek, Ghenwa [author.]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris, 2015Description: xi, 268 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9781784530150 (hbk.) Subject(s): Arabic literature -- Lebanon -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Arabic literature -- Lebanon -- 21st century -- History and criticism | Lebanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 892.73609569 HAY Online resources: Table of contents

Contents:

1.Inhospitable Spaces: City and Village in Tawahin Bayrut and Tuyur Aylul 2.A City Divided: Beirut in the (1975 90) Civil War 3.Commemorative Countermemories: Beirut in 1990s Lebanese Fiction 4.Tracing Beirut in Contemporary Historical Novels: Postmemory and the Urban Imaginary in Rabee Jaber and Alexandre Najjar 5.Beirut: Past, Present, Future? Memory and Anxiety in Contemporary Lebanese Comics.

Summary: Hayek charts the rise to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity - not only following the destruction of the city-centre during the country's fifteen-year civil war, as is mostly assumed in recent scholarship - but over a century.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	892.73609569 HAY 005932 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005932

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.

1.Inhospitable Spaces: City and Village in Tawahin Bayrut and Tuyur Aylul
2.A City Divided: Beirut in the (1975
90) Civil War
3.Commemorative Countermemories: Beirut in 1990s Lebanese Fiction
4.Tracing Beirut in Contemporary Historical Novels: Postmemory and the Urban Imaginary in Rabee Jaber and Alexandre Najjar
5.Beirut: Past, Present, Future? Memory and Anxiety in Contemporary Lebanese Comics.

Hayek charts the rise to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity - not only following the destruction of the city-centre during the country's fifteen-year civil war, as is mostly assumed in recent scholarship - but over a century.

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