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Author Volk, Lucia

Title Memorials and martyrs in modern Lebanon / Lucia Volk
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 250 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Contents The politics of memory in Lebanon: sectarianism, memorials, and martyrdom -- Sculpting independence: competing ceremonies and mutilated faces (1915-1957) -- Remembering civil wars: fearless faces and wounded bodies (1958-1995) -- Reconstructing while re-destructing Lebanon: dismembered bodies and national unity (1996-2003) -- Revisiting independence and mobilizing resistance: assassinations, massacres, and divided memory-scapes (2004-2006) -- Memorial politics and national imaginings: possibilities and limits
Summary Muslim-Christian co-existence through public art
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Martyrs -- Monuments -- Lebanon
Memorials -- Lebanon
Nationalism and collective memory -- Lebanon
HISTORY -- General.
Ethnic relations
Memorials
Nationalism and collective memory
SUBJECT Lebanon -- Ethnic relations
Subject Lebanon
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253004925
0253004926