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The Cultural Memory of the Lebanese Civil War-Revisited
Series: - Mobilizing Memories, Volume: 4
This volume, edited by Leyla Dakhli and Klaus Wieland, is an overview of the cultural memory of the Lebanese Civil War, as it has emerged and evolved over the last 30 years. These narratives represent a counter-memory to the non-existent national memory, undesired by Lebanon's political class.
In 1991, the Amnesty Law G84/91 was enacted, granting state power impunity for all war crimes, including crimes against humanity. The general amnesty entailed partial amnesia; the war was to be "officially" forgotten. And yet, since the 1990s, nongovernmental organizations, archives, activists, publicists, visual artists, filmmakers, and writers have produced an impressive alternative culture of remembrance of the Lebanese Civil War, which is revisited and analyzed in this book. Contributors represent a multi-disciplinary mix, with perspectives from area studies, history, social science, literary studies, trauma and memory, and peace and conflict studies.
In 1991, the Amnesty Law G84/91 was enacted, granting state power impunity for all war crimes, including crimes against humanity. The general amnesty entailed partial amnesia; the war was to be "officially" forgotten. And yet, since the 1990s, nongovernmental organizations, archives, activists, publicists, visual artists, filmmakers, and writers have produced an impressive alternative culture of remembrance of the Lebanese Civil War, which is revisited and analyzed in this book. Contributors represent a multi-disciplinary mix, with perspectives from area studies, history, social science, literary studies, trauma and memory, and peace and conflict studies.
Leyla Dakhli, Ph.D. (2003), is a senior-researcher at the CNRS, Centre d'Histoire sociale des mondes contemporains and associated with the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. Her work deals with the study of Arab intellectuals and social history of the Mediterranean region. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded program DREAM (Drafting and Enacting the revolutions in the Arab Mediterranean).
Klaus Wieland, Ph.D. (1995) and Habilitation (2020) in German studies, is maître de conférences at the Université de Strasbourg and DAAD lecturer at the American University of Beirut. His research interests include gender studies, memory and literature, modern poetry, and intercultural literature.
Klaus Wieland, Ph.D. (1995) and Habilitation (2020) in German studies, is maître de conférences at the Université de Strasbourg and DAAD lecturer at the American University of Beirut. His research interests include gender studies, memory and literature, modern poetry, and intercultural literature.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Leyla Dakhli and Klaus Wieland
1 The Lebanon War (1975–1990) between the Local and the Global. Civil War or “Glocal” War?
Dima de Clerck
2 Hushed Zones: the Fakhani Republic in Lebanese-Palestinian Historical Memory
Sune Haugbolle
3 War in Boxes? Archiving in Today’s Lebanon
Leyla Dakhli
4 Between Medium and Mediality Screening Hope and Memory in Lebanon
Norman Saadi Nikro
5 Transiting Beirut’s Post-Civil War Cultural Memory
Claire Launchbury
6 Co-Producers of Countermemory: the Role of Literary Scholars in Constructing the Literary Memory of the Lebanese Civil War
Felix Lang
7 Will the Lebanese Civil War Ever Die? the Contemporary Realities in/of Anglophone Writings and the Visual Arts
Syrine Hout
8 Saying the War in Contemporary Lebanese Literary and Artistic Practices: a Few Examples
Nayla Tamraz
9 On a Vacuum and How to Fill it: Literature at the Bedside of Failed Institutions
Sandra Barrère
10 German Literature and the Lebanese Civil War. Notes on Pierre Jarawan’s German-Lebanese Migration Novels
Klaus Wieland
11 Lebanon’s October Revolution ( al-thawra 17 tishrīn) and the Civil War. Memory, Protests, and Mobilization
Craig Larkin
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Leyla Dakhli and Klaus Wieland
Part 1:Fragmented Memories
1 The Lebanon War (1975–1990) between the Local and the Global. Civil War or “Glocal” War?
Dima de Clerck
2 Hushed Zones: the Fakhani Republic in Lebanese-Palestinian Historical Memory
Sune Haugbolle
Part 2: Material Traces – Archives, Documentaries, and Infrastructure
3 War in Boxes? Archiving in Today’s Lebanon
Leyla Dakhli
4 Between Medium and Mediality Screening Hope and Memory in Lebanon
Norman Saadi Nikro
5 Transiting Beirut’s Post-Civil War Cultural Memory
Claire Launchbury
Part 3: Remembrance Literature
6 Co-Producers of Countermemory: the Role of Literary Scholars in Constructing the Literary Memory of the Lebanese Civil War
Felix Lang
7 Will the Lebanese Civil War Ever Die? the Contemporary Realities in/of Anglophone Writings and the Visual Arts
Syrine Hout
8 Saying the War in Contemporary Lebanese Literary and Artistic Practices: a Few Examples
Nayla Tamraz
9 On a Vacuum and How to Fill it: Literature at the Bedside of Failed Institutions
Sandra Barrère
10 German Literature and the Lebanese Civil War. Notes on Pierre Jarawan’s German-Lebanese Migration Novels
Klaus Wieland
Part 4: Outlook
11 Lebanon’s October Revolution ( al-thawra 17 tishrīn) and the Civil War. Memory, Protests, and Mobilization
Craig Larkin
Index
Scholars, students, libraries, non-profits, think tanks and institutes concerned with the history and memory of the Lebanese Civil War, memories studies, narratives of conflicts, and peace and conflict studies.