art and art history
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women's and gender studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780815637820
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2022
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Women have consistently been left out of the official writing of Lebanese history, and nowhere is this more obvious than in writing on the Lebanese Civil War. As more and more histories of the war begin to circulate, few include any in-depth discussion of the multiple roles women played in wartime Lebanon. Fewer still address the essential issues of women’s work and their creative production, such as literature, performance art, and filmmaking.
Developed out of a larger oral history project collecting and archiving the ways in which women narrated their experiences of the Lebanese Civil War, this book focuses on a wide range of subjects, all framed as women telling their "war stories." Each of the six chapters centers on women who worked or created art during the war, revealing, in their own words, the challenges, struggles, and resistance they faced during this tumultuous period of Lebanese history.
Developed out of a larger oral history project collecting and archiving the ways in which women narrated their experiences of the Lebanese Civil War, this book focuses on a wide range of subjects, all framed as women telling their "war stories." Each of the six chapters centers on women who worked or created art during the war, revealing, in their own words, the challenges, struggles, and resistance they faced during this tumultuous period of Lebanese history.
Michelle Hartman is professor of Arabic literature at McGill University. She is the author of Breaking Broken English: Black-Arab Literary Solidarities and the Politics of Language.
Malek Abisaab is professor of history at McGill University. He is the author of Militant Women of a Fragile Nation.
