Overview
- Spotlights invisible histories from the Lebanese experience
- Provides in-depth analyses of inaccessible traumatic events as articulated by literary language
- Encourages a more progressive trauma discourse in Arabic-speaking societies
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About this book
This book takes the case of the civil war disappeared in Lebanon to draw on fiction’s potential to inform peacebuilding processes by allowing the exploration of invisible histories in postwar Beirut. In its close reading of three Lebanese novels by Rabee Jaber, the book follows a multidisciplinary approach that puts trauma theory in dialogue with the Lebanese context and Arabic language, producing new concepts, models, and questions related to trauma, loss, and history, while also reflecting on the role fiction, as a cultural production, can play.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Reviews
“Trauma, Memory, and the Lebanese Post-War Novel” marshals profound research into the fictional work of Rabee Jaber to undertake the first in-depth analysis of one of the most innovative contemporary literary voices. The book invites us all to situate ourselves within a post-war fiction that articulates a pressing criticism and envisions the important place of contemporary Arab literature in reflecting our global societies. (Liliana Gómez, University of Kassel, author of "Archive Matter: A Camera in the Laboratory of the Modern")
“Drawing on innovative methodologies and activating a literary-theoretical dialogue across disciplines, involving art and literature, critical theory and Arabic writing, the book contributes to a new approach to the war and postwar literature that connects debates in literary scholarship with those in art and anthropology. It particularly allows us to discover the potential of the Arabic literary text to inform theoretical models on loss and haunting beyond their context and articulation.” (Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth College)
“Trauma, Memory, and the Lebanese Post-War Novel” is the first book-length study of Rabee Jaber’s work. Skilfully combining theoretical reflection, close reading of novels and in-depth analysis of the narrative techniques used to convey a sense of trauma, while constantly tying it to the political-historical context, it opens up new avenues in the way it interrogates literature to talk about Lebanon's ‘invisible histories.’ It thus demonstrates how Arabic fiction contributes to the understanding and processing of traumatic events in post-conflict societies. (Barbara Winckler, co-editor of "Arabic Literature – Postmodern Perspectives")
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dani Nassif holds a PhD in modern Arabic literature and culture (summa cum laude) and is currently adjunct lecturer at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trauma, Memory, and the Lebanese Post-War Novel
Book Subtitle: Beirut’s Invisible Histories in Rabee Jaber’s Fiction
Authors: Dani Nassif
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49171-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49170-2Published: 19 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49173-3Due: 19 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49171-9Published: 18 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Middle Eastern Culture, Cultural Heritage