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04347aam a22006018i 4500 001 F9064220ECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150720s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015020273 020 $a 1137559888 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137559883 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)914217306 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d CDX $d EYM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-le--- 050 00 $a PJ8082 $b .L36 2015 082 00 $a 892.7/370995692 $2 23 084 $a LIT004220 $a LIT004130 $a LIT004220 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Lang, Felix, $d 1985- 245 14 $a The Lebanese post-civil war novel : $b memory, trauma, and capital / $c Felix Lang. 263 $a 1511 264 1 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a vi, 263 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict (pschc) 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-252) and index. 505 00 $a Introduction -- The Lebanese literary field. Newspapers, prizes and politics : the field's institutions and the global and regional context -- The values of the field : what makes a good novel in Lebanon? -- "We're all in the dark" : the first generation of (post)war authors. The civil war novel and the break with tradition -- Revolutionaries turned writers : a secular left-wing habitus -- Destruction and deconstruction : forms of literary remembering -- Ghosts in the archive : the sceond generation of postwar authors. The civil war novel as gateway to the literary field -- Humanist commitment : a new habitus -- Archive, trauma and reconstruction : new forms of literary remembering -- 505 80 $a Conclusion : whose truth, whose power? -- Appendix A : list of authors -- Appendix B : list of novels. 650 0 $a Arabic fiction $z Lebanon $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a War in literature. 650 0 $a Collective memory in literature. 650 0 $a Psychic trauma in literature. 650 0 $a Lebanese fiction (French) $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a Lebanon $x Literature and the war. $y Civil War, 1975-1990 $x Literature and the war. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern. $2 bisacsh 611 27 $a Civil War (Lebanon : 1975-1990) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01352309 650 7 $a Arabic fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812274 650 7 $a Collective memory in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902844 650 7 $a Lebanese fiction (French) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00995223 650 7 $a Psychic trauma in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01081229 650 7 $a War and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170442 650 7 $a War in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170505 651 7 $a Lebanon. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206063 648 7 $a 1975 - 1990 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213015953.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9064220ECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search