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This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative
pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary
representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside
journalism and other media including film and art. The book
investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics of
representation on questions of extreme emotional investment,
comparing representations of the siege to representations of other
traumatic events, visiting responses from those of different
cultural backgrounds to the same event and considering implications
with respect to comparative approaches. Chapters explore how
literature, journalism and art contribute to overcoming the dangers
of forgetting and denial, memorial excess and fundamentalism, the
radicalization of violence, and the complete breakdown of trust on
international levels, asking how they challenge geopolitical,
intellectual, and psychological states of siege and instead promote
awareness, acknowledgement, mourning, and justice across divided
communities. The book extends the use of postcolonial methodologies
affiliated with history, international relations, and
psychoanalysis (memory, trauma) to Middle-Eastern studies, and
visits the siege's effect on different forms of memory and
memorialization: selective memory, trauma, gaps and fissures in
historical accounts, recording of eyewitness reports, and artistic
re-imaginings and realizations of alternative archives.
This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative
pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary
representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside
journalism and other media including film and art. The book
investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics of
representation on questions of extreme emotional investment,
comparing representations of the siege to representations of other
traumatic events, visiting responses from those of different
cultural backgrounds to the same event and considering implications
with respect to comparative approaches. Chapters explore how
literature, journalism and art contribute to overcoming the dangers
of forgetting and denial, memorial excess and fundamentalism, the
radicalization of violence, and the complete breakdown of trust on
international levels, asking how they challenge geopolitical,
intellectual, and psychological states of siege and instead promote
awareness, acknowledgement, mourning, and justice across divided
communities. The book extends the use of postcolonial methodologies
affiliated with history, international relations, and
psychoanalysis (memory, trauma) to Middle-Eastern studies, and
visits the siege's effect on different forms of memory and
memorialization: selective memory, trauma, gaps and fissures in
historical accounts, recording of eyewitness reports, and artistic
re-imaginings and realizations of alternative archives.
There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of
monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that
shed light on aspects of their meanings. However, just as monuments
mark their territory by attempting to ensure the existence of
boundaries, sothese discourses set a boundary between their
authority as platforms on which the interpretation of monumental
space occurs and, in this respect, the different authority of the
novel. This study crosses this boundary by means of dynamic
interdisciplinary movements between selected novels by James Joyce,
Yukio Mishima, Rashid al-Daif, and Orhan Pamuk, on the one hand,
and various theoretical perspectives,history, and cultural
geography, on the other. Through the specific choice of literary
texts that represent monumental space in a typical post-imperial
geopolitical contexts, Monumental Space and the Post-Imperial Novel
brings into question many postcolonial paradigms. Sakr establishes
a two-way interpretive methodology between theory, history,and
cultural geography and the novel that serves as the groundwork for
innovative interdisciplinary readings of monumental space.
This title establishes a two-way interpretive methodology between
theory, history, and geography and the novel that serves as the
groundwork for innovative interdisciplinary readings of monumental
space. There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of
studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical
positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings. However,
just as monuments mark their territory by attempting to ensure the
existence of boundaries, so these discourses set a boundary between
their authority as platforms on which the interpretation of
monumental space occurs and, in this respect, the different
authority of the novel. This study crosses this boundary by means
of dynamic interdisciplinary movements between selected novels by
James Joyce, Yukio Mishima, Rashid al-Daif, and Orhan Pamuk, on the
one hand, and various theoretical perspectives, history, and
cultural geography, on the other. Through the specific choice of
literary texts that represent monumental space in atypical
post-imperial geopolitical contexts, "Monumental Space and the
Post-Imperial Novel" brings into question many postcolonial
paradigms. Sakr establishes a two-way interpretive methodology
between theory, history, and cultural geography and the novel that
serves as the groundwork for innovative interdisciplinary readings
of monumental space.
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