War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) - Softcover

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Khayyat, Yasmine

 
9780815637936: War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
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ISBN 10: 0815637934 ISBN 13: 9780815637936
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2023

Synopsis

War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as a resistant trope in the intellectual spaces of war’s aftermath. She focuses on "Southern Counterpublics," a collective of poets, novelists, activists, artists, and ordinary citizens and their war-inspired creative productions that speak to the ruins’ capacity to be reframed, recycled, and recontested. Khayyat argues that the ruins of war can be thought of as a generative milieu for resistant thought and action. An ambitious and provocative work, War Remains ventures to the so-called margins to archive the texture and substance rendered invisible when studies of memory rely solely on data furnished by official narratives and military accounts of war.

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About the Author

<b>Yasmine Khayyat</b> is assistant professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Rutgers University.

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Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0815637934
ISBN 13 
9780815637936
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
291

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