The Cultural Memory of the Lebanese Civil War-Revisited

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-51977-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 04, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Mobilizing Memories

This volume, edited by Leyla Dakhli and Klaus Wieland, is an overview of the cultural memory of the Lebanese Civil War,
as it has emerged and evolved over the last 30 years. These narratives represent a counter-memory to the non-existent
national memory, undesired by Lebanon's political class.



In 1991, the Amnesty Law G84/91 was enacted, granting state power impunity for all war crimes, including crimes against
humanity. The general amnesty entailed partial amnesia; the war was to be "officially" forgotten. And yet, since the 1990s,
nongovernmental organizations, archives, activists, publicists, visual artists, filmmakers, and writers have produced an
impressive alternative culture of remembrance of the Lebanese Civil War, which is revisited and analyzed in this book.
Contributors represent a multi-disciplinary mix, with perspectives from area studies, history, social science, literary studies,
trauma and memory, and peace and conflict studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dakhli, Leyla

Wieland, Klaus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Leyla Dakhli and Klaus Wieland

Part 1:Fragmented Memories

1 The Lebanon War (1975–1990) between the Local and the Global. Civil War or “Glocal” War?

Dima de Clerck

2 Hushed Zones: the Fakhani Republic in Lebanese-Palestinian Historical Memory

Sune Haugbolle

Part 2: Material Traces – Archives, Documentaries, and Infrastructure

3 War in Boxes? Archiving in Today’s Lebanon

Leyla Dakhli

4 Between Medium and Mediality Screening Hope and Memory in Lebanon

Norman Saadi Nikro

5 Transiting Beirut’s Post-Civil War Cultural Memory

Claire Launchbury

Part 3: Remembrance Literature

6 Co-Producers of Countermemory: the Role of Literary Scholars in Constructing the Literary Memory of the Lebanese Civil War

Felix Lang

7 Will the Lebanese Civil War Ever Die? the Contemporary Realities in/of Anglophone Writings and the Visual Arts

Syrine Hout

8 Saying the War in Contemporary Lebanese Literary and Artistic Practices: a Few Examples

Nayla Tamraz

9 On a Vacuum and How to Fill it: Literature at the Bedside of Failed Institutions

Sandra Barrère

10 German Literature and the Lebanese Civil War. Notes on Pierre Jarawan’s German-Lebanese Migration Novels

Klaus Wieland

Part 4: Outlook

11 Lebanon’s October Revolution (al-thawra 17 tishrin) and the Civil War. Memory, Protests, and Mobilization

Craig Larkin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leyla Dakhli, Ph.D. (2003), is a senior-researcher at the CNRS, Centre d'Histoire sociale des mondes contemporains and
associated with the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. Her work deals with the study of Arab intellectuals and social history of
the Mediterranean region. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded program DREAM (Drafting and Enacting
the revolutions in the Arab Mediterranean).



Klaus Wieland, Ph.D. (1995) and Habilitation (2020) in German studies, is maître de conférences at the Université de
Strasbourg and DAAD lecturer at the American University of Beirut. His research interests include gender studies, memory
and literature, modern poetry, and intercultural literature.