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Autore |
Salameh Franck <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Language, memory, and identity in the Middle East [[electronic resource] ] : the case for Lebanon / / Franck Salameh |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-7391-3740-9 |
1-282-56150-2 |
9786612561504 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and culture - Lebanon |
Arabic language - Social aspects - Lebanon |
National characteristics, Lebanese |
Group identity - Lebanon |
Lebanon Intellectual life |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Arabism and Its Rivals; Chapter 02. Swarming Memories, Clashing Identities: The Case for Lebanon; Chapter 03. Lebanon's Myths and Legends; Chapter 04. Saìˆd Akl: The Architect of the Spirit of the Nation; Chapter 05. Particularism as Template; Chapter 06. Linguistic Lebanonism; Chapter07. Toward a Lebanese Alphabet, Toward a New Middle East; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Since the West's very early flirtations with the modern Near East, and especially in the past 100 years of East-West relations, there has been considerable difficulty in understanding and defining the Middle East, the Arab world, pan-Arabism, Arab nationalism, and Middle Eastern identities in general. The Western impulse of conflating national identity with language, state, and ethnicity-often subsuming Arabic language into Arab ethnicity-has contributed to this misunderstanding and misreading of the region. For, while the Middle East can be accurately referred to by way of t |
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