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Dissident Syria : making oppositional arts official / Miriam Cooke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- cooke, miriam.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dissenters, Artistic--Syria.
- Dissenters, Artistic.
- Art--Political aspects--Syria.
- Art.
- Arabic literature--Syria--History and criticism.
- Arabic literature.
- Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Syria--Intellectual life.
- Syria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asad s Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- "Culture is humanity's highest need" / As if . . . / Slogans, slogans everywhere
- Freedom and democracy
- Our literature does not leave the country / Nadia al-Ghazzi / Colette al-Khuri
- No such thing as women's literature / Ulfat Idilbi / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani / Nadia Khust and the Nadwa
- Commissioned criticism / Culture after the Fall of the Wall / Commissioned criticism / The fantasy of choice
- Dissident performances / Performing dissidence / The ghoul /
- Historical miniatures
- Filming dreams / The extras / Dreaming features / Documenting dreams
- Lighten your step / Ibrahim Samuil / Waiting / Ghassan al-Jaba'i / Lessons from a rogue state
- Leaving Damascus
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613035646
- 9781283035644
- 1283035642
- 9780822390565
- 0822390566
- OCLC:
- 262341488
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