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Beirut, imagining the city : space and place in Lebanese literature / Ghenwa Hayek.
Van Pelt Library PJ7572.B43 H39 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayek, Ghenwa, author.
- Series:
- Library of modern Middle East studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lebanese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Lebanese literature.
- Lebanese literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- National characteristics in literature.
- Beirut (Lebanon)--In literature.
- Beirut (Lebanon).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 268 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Space and place in Lebanese literature
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
- Contents:
- 1 Inhospitable Spaces: City and Village in Tawahin Bayrut and Tuyur Aylul 30
- 2 A City Divided: Beirut in the (1975-90) Civil War 62
- 3 Commemorative Countermemories: Beirut in 1990s Lebanese Fiction 94
- 4 Tracing Beirut in Contemporary Historical Novels: Postmemory and the Urban Imaginary in Rabee Jaber and Alexandre Najjar 129
- 5 Beirut: Past, Present, Future? Memory and Anxiety in Contemporary Lebanese Comics 166.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784530150
- 1784530158
- OCLC:
- 896613760
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