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Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon
Ken Seigneurie
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Description for Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon
Paperback. Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. This book reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinctive aesthetic of resistance to it. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 color, 11 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinctive aesthetic of resistance to it. Focusing on contemporary Lebanese fiction, film, and popular culture, this book shows how artists reappropriated the twin legacies of commitment literature and the ancient topos of standing by the ruins to form a new elegiac humanism during the tumultuous ... Read more
Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinctive aesthetic of resistance to it. Focusing on contemporary Lebanese fiction, film, and popular culture, this book shows how artists reappropriated the twin legacies of commitment literature and the ancient topos of standing by the ruins to form a new elegiac humanism during the tumultuous ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Modern Language Initiative
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823234837
SKU
V9780823234837
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About Ken Seigneurie
Ken Seigneurie is Associate Professor of World Literature and Director of the Program in World Literature at Simon Fraser University, Surrey,British Columbia. He spent the first thirteen years of his scholarly career in Lebanon, where he edited Crisis and Memory: The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative.
Reviews for Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon
Fascinating, eloquent, and tightly argued, Standing by the Ruins offers a distinctive perspective on relations between cultural productions and politics in times of extreme duress.Across a range of fascinating examples, Seigneiurie shows the ways in which novelists and filmmakers offer alternative visions in a collapsing world that can set the stage for new ways of imagining the future.
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