Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon
by
Ken Seigneurie
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinctive aesthetic of resistance...