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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.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
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