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LEADER: 02394nam a22003378a 4500
001 2009042401
003 DLC
005 20091020144144.0
008 091008s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009042401
020 $a9780521199025 (hbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $aa-le---
050 00 $aDS87.5$b.H384 2010
082 00 $a956.9204/4$222
100 1 $aHaugbolle, Sune,$d1976-
245 10 $aWar and memory in Lebanon /$cSune Haugbolle.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
263 $a1003
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aCambridge Middle East studies ;$v34
520 $a"From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon endured one of the most protracted and bloody civil wars of the twentieth century. Sune Haugbolle's timely and often poignant book chronicles the battle over ideas that emerged from the wreckage of that war. While the Lebanese state encouraged forgetfulness and political parties created sectarian interpretations of the war through cults of dead leaders, intellectuals and activists--inspired by the example of truth and reconciliation movements in different parts of the world--advanced the idea that confronting and remembering the war was necessary for political and cultural renewal. Through an analysis of different cultural productions--media, art, literature, film, posters, and architecture--the author shows how the recollection and reconstruction of political and sectarian violence that took place during the war have helped in Lebanon's healing process. He also shows how a willingness to confront the past influenced the popular uprising in Lebanon after the assassination of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: A hiatus of history -- Remembering a war of selves and others -- Culture, politics, civil war -- Discourses on amnesia and reconstruction : memory in the 1990s -- Nostalgias -- Inside violence -- Sectarian memory cultures -- Truth telling in the Independence Intifada.
651 0 $aLebanon$xHistory$yCivil War, 1975-1990$xInfluence.
650 0 $aCollective memory$zLebanon.
650 0 $aMemory$xSocial aspects$zLebanon.
650 0 $aWar and society$zLebanon.
651 0 $aLebanon$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aLebanon$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aLebanon$xPolitics and government$y1990-