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Beirut, Imagining the City - Space and Place in Lebanese Literature (Hardcover)
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Beirut, Imagining the City - Space and Place in Lebanese Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Written Culture and Identity
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Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon. But
to what extent has the city affected and shaped the formation and
perceptions of Lebanese national identity? Ghenwa Hayek here
explores how anxieties over the past, present and future of Beirut
have been articulated through a sense of dislocation present in
Lebanese writing since the 1960s. Drawing on theories of cultural
studies, geography and history, the author uses an
interdisciplinary framework to explore the role that spaces - from
rural to urban - have played and continue to play in the defining,
and re-defining, of national identity in the seventy years since
the creation of the Lebanese nation state. This theoretical
perspective coupled with a close reading of little-explored
contemporary writings lead Hayek to question the predominant
assumption that Lebanese novelists only became engaged in
discourses about place identity and individual and social belonging
with the start of the fifteen-year civil war and the destruction of
Beirut's city centre. Instead, the book shows that particular
geographical imaginaries have been mobilized to describe, question
and debate Lebanese identity since the 1960s and that some go back
even further into the late nineteenth century. This re-reading
calls for a re-evaluation of some of the most predominant
assumptions about Lebanon and the processes of Lebanese identity
formation across the country's modern history. Examining a wide
range of modern and contemporary literature, Hayek charts the rise
to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant
player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity.
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