Felix Lang 
The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel 
Memory, Trauma, and Capital

After the Lebanese Civil War, many Lebanese novelists committed themselves to building a ‘memory for the future.’ What resulted was a vital contribution to the legacy of contemporary Arabic literature. Through interviews, literary analysis, and the lens of trauma studies, Lang sheds light on what it means to remember through post-war literature.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Introduction

PART I: THE LEBANESE LITERARY FIELD

1. Newspapers, Prizes and Politics: The Field’s Institutions and the Global and Regional Context

2. What Makes a Good Novel in Lebanon? The Values of the Field

PART II: ‘WE’RE ALL IN THE DARK’ – THE FIRST GENERATION OF (POST-) WAR AUTHORS

3. The Civil War Novel and the Break with Tradition

4. Revolutionaries Turned Writers: A Secular Left-Wing Habitus

5. Destruction and Deconstruction: Forms of Literary Remembering

PART III: GHOSTS IN THE ARCHIVE – THE SECOND GENERATION OF POSTWAR AUTHORS

6. The Civil War Novel as Gateway to the Literary Field

7. Humanist Commitment: A New Habitus

8. Archive, Trauma and Reconstruction: New Forms of Literary Remembering

Conclusion: Whose Truth, Whose Power?

Appendix A: List of Authors

Appendix B: List of Novels

Sobre o autor

Felix Lang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Marburg, Germany.