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Dissident Syria making oppositional arts official

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham Duke University Press 2007Description: viii,196p. ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780822340355
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.91042 22 CO-D
LOC classification:
  • DS94.6 .C66 2007
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Culture is humanity's highest need" / As if . . . / Slogans, slogans everywhere -- Freedom and democracy -- Our literature does not leave the country / Nadia al-Ghazzi / Colette al-Khuri -- No such thing as women's literature / Ulfat Idilbi / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani / Nadia Khust and the Nadwa -- Commissioned criticism / Culture after the Fall of the Wall / Commissioned criticism / The fantasy of choice -- Dissident performances / Performing dissidence / The ghoul / -- Historical miniatures -- Filming dreams / The extras / Dreaming features / Documenting dreams -- Lighten your step / Ibrahim Samuil / Waiting / Ghassan al-Jaba'i / Lessons from a rogue state -- Leaving Damascus -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Culture is humanity's highest need" / As if . . . / Slogans, slogans everywhere -- Freedom and democracy -- Our literature does not leave the country / Nadia al-Ghazzi / Colette al-Khuri -- No such thing as women's literature / Ulfat Idilbi / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani / Nadia Khust and the Nadwa -- Commissioned criticism / Culture after the Fall of the Wall / Commissioned criticism / The fantasy of choice -- Dissident performances / Performing dissidence / The ghoul / -- Historical miniatures -- Filming dreams / The extras / Dreaming features / Documenting dreams -- Lighten your step / Ibrahim Samuil / Waiting / Ghassan al-Jaba'i / Lessons from a rogue state -- Leaving Damascus -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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