| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
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| Contents |
Part I. Representing the Siege -- 'War Is Surrealism without Art': 'Representing the Unrepresentable' in Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness, Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game, and Robert Fisk's Pity the Nation -- Writing Beirut c.1982: James Buchan, Robert Fisk, and Charles Glass -- 'Besiege Your Siege!': Mahmoud Darwish, Representation, and the Siege of Beirut -- 'Looking the Beast in the Eye': Screening Trauma in Waltz with Bashir and Lebanon -- Sonallah Ibrahim on the Event(s) of Beirut -- A Question of Faith in Humanity: Jean Said Makdisi's Beirut Fragments and Other Beirut Fragments -- Violence, Trauma, and Subjectivity: Compromise Formations of Survival in the Novels of Rawi Hage and Mischa Hiller -- Contrapuntal Beauty and the Betrayal of Representation: Jean Genet after Shatila -- Jawdat R. Haydar and William Wordsworth: London under Siege, 1982 -- Part II. Remembering and Reporting the Siege -- Reporting Sabra and Shatila -- Recording Memory: The Palestinian Experience -- Excerpt from Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir -- Interview with Robert Fisk -- Interview with Mischa Hiller -- Interview with Mai Masri -- Sabra-Shatila Commemorative Mural Project |
| Summary |
This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film and art. The book investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics of representation on questions of extreme emotional investment, comparing representations of the siege to representations of other traumatic events, visiting responses from those of different cultural backgrounds to the same event and considering implications with respect to comparative approaches |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Objectivity.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Literature
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Objectivity
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| SUBJECT |
Lebanon -- History -- Israeli intervention, 1982-1985 -- Literature and the intervention
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Beirut (Lebanon) -- In literature
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Beirut (Lebanon) -- In art
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| Subject |
Lebanon
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Lebanon -- Beirut
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Art
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rooney, Caroline.
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Sakr, Rita.
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| ISBN |
9781135136529 |
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1135136521 |
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9780203078211 |
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0203078217 |
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