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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785314503321

Autore

Volk Lucia

Titolo

Memorials and martyrs in modern Lebanon [[electronic resource] /] / Lucia Volk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-97586-2

9786612975868

0-253-00492-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Disciplina

956.9204

Soggetti

Martyrs - Monuments - Lebanon

Memorials - Lebanon

Nationalism and collective memory - Lebanon

Lebanon Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The politics of memory in Lebanon: sectarianism, memorials, and martyrdom -- Sculpting independence: competing ceremonies and mutilated faces (1915-1957) -- Remembering civil wars: fearless faces and wounded bodies (1958-1995) -- Reconstructing while re-destructing Lebanon: dismembered bodies and national unity (1996-2003) -- Revisiting independence and mobilizing resistance: assassinations, massacres, and divided memory-scapes (2004-2006) -- Memorial politics and national imaginings: possibilities and limits.