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1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations (black and white). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Written culture and identity ; 2
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WCI (London, England) ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: From Mount Lebanon to Beirut: The Shifting Landscapes of Lebanese Fiction; 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. |
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5. Beirut: Past, Present, Future? Memory and Anxiety in Contemporary Lebanese ComicsEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon. But to what extent has the city affected and shaped the formation and perceptions of Lebanese national identity? Ghenwa Hayek here explores how anxieties over the past, present and future of Beirut have been articulated through a sense of dislocation present in Lebanese writing since the 1960s. Drawing on theories of cultural studies, geography and history, the author uses an interdisciplinary framework to explore the role that spaces - from rural to urban - have played and continue to play in the defining, and re-defining, of nat. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Beirut (Lebanon) -- In literature.
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Arabic fiction -- Lebanon -- History and criticism.
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Arabic fiction. |
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Lebanon. |
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Arabic literature -- Lebanon -- History and criticism.
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Arabic literature. |
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Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Arabic literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Lebanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Lebanese literature. |
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Lebanese literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics in literature.
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National characteristics in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Space and place in Lebanese literature |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hayek, Ghenwa. Beirut, imagining the city 9781784530150 (OCoLC)896613760 |
| ISBN |
9780857736703 (electronic book) |
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0857736701 (electronic book) |
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9780857725325 (electronic book) |
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0857725327 (electronic book) |
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9781784530150 |
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1784530158 |
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