TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haugbolle,Sune
TI  - War and memory in Lebanon 
T2  - Cambridge Middle East studies
SN  - 9780521199025 
AV  - DS87.5 .H384 2010
U1  - 956.92044 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - Memory
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - War and society
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1975-1990
KW  - Influence
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1990-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-253) and index; Prologue: 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
N2  - "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
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