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Beirut, Imagining the City: Space and Place in Lebanese Literature
Ghenwa Hayek
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Description for Beirut, Imagining the City: Space and Place in Lebanese Literature
Hardcover. Hayek charts the rise to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity - not only following the destruction of the city-centre during the country's fifteen-year civil war, as is mostly assumed in recent scholarship - but over a century. Series: Written Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 1FBL; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Written Culture and Identity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784530150
SKU
V9781784530150
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About Ghenwa Hayek
Ghenwa Hayek is Assistant Professor of Arabic at Claremont McKenna College, California, USA. She holds a PhD from Brown University in Comparative Literature.
Reviews for Beirut, Imagining the City: Space and Place in Lebanese Literature
'Ghenwa Hayek writes beautifully. This book has impressive historical range, demonstrates expertise in urban theorizing and, together with a full knowledge of scholarship about Lebanese history and literature, shows compelling organization.' Edward J. Ahearn, University Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and French Studies, Brown University