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Author_Yasmine Khayyat
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Lebanese studies
literary criticism
memory studies
Middle East studies
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- ISBN 9780815638001
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2023
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as a resistant trope in the intellectual spaces of war’s aftermath. She focuses on "Southern Counterpublics," a collective of poets, novelists, activists, artists, and ordinary citizens and their war-inspired creative productions that speak to the ruins’ capacity to be reframed, recycled, and recontested. Khayyat argues that the ruins of war can be thought of as a generative milieu for resistant thought and action. An ambitious and provocative work, War Remains ventures to the so-called margins to archive the texture and substance rendered invisible when studies of memory rely solely on data furnished by official narratives and military accounts of war.
Yasmine Khayyat is assistant professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Rutgers University.
