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Autore: | Salameh Franck <1962-> |
Titolo: | Language, memory, and identity in the Middle East [[electronic resource] ] : the case for Lebanon / / Franck Salameh |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (319 p.) |
Disciplina: | 956.92 |
Soggetto topico: | Language and culture - Lebanon |
Arabic language - Social aspects - Lebanon | |
National characteristics, Lebanese | |
Group identity - Lebanon | |
Soggetto geografico: | Lebanon Intellectual life |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. Saïd 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Language, memory, and identity in the Middle East |
ISBN: | 0-7391-3740-9 |
1-282-56150-2 | |
9786612561504 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785975103321 |
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