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The Fragmenting Force of Memory

Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon

By: Norman Saadi Nikro

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The Fragmenting Force of Memory

Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon

By: Norman Saadi Nikro

This study is about experimental forms of cultural production that situate and work through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It addresses selected works of literature, autobiography and memoir by Jean Said Makdisi, Rashid al-Daif, Elias Khoury and Mai Ghoussoub, and the civil war trilogy of documentary films by Mohamed Soueid. From a phenomenological hermeneutic perspective, the book is concerned with how they give accounts of themselves as remnants, leftovers and undigested remains of the civil war, and of related trajectories of ideological attachment to symbolic mandates. Constrained to reposition their sense of self from an agent of history to a casualty of history, their acutely personal works of cultural production initiate an unraveling of both self and circumstance through the fragmenting force of memory. Drawing on a broad range of phenomenological critical theory (within the research fields of postcolonial, memory, psychoanalytic, gender and literary studies) attuned to subjectivity as a field of social production and exchange, emphasis is given to how the writers and filmmaker employ a non-presentist, anachronic or paratactic register of memory to excavate both a historical understanding of self and related modalities of social viability. This concerns how the symptomatic style of their work embodies, and creatively and critically situates, a refusal to package and normailze any idealized account of the war, related assemblages of temporal succession, or a presentation of self as discrete and omniscient.

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Milieus of ReMemory

Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice

By: Norman Saadi Nikro

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Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice

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Milieus of ReMemory concentrates on how people in Lebanon situate and work on memories of violence and trauma, as well as exchanges of voice. Developing a critical phenomenology of social material practices, a relational notion of community and subjectivity outlines thematic discussions of intergenerational memory, gender, temporality, and transactions between personal and public memory. While emphasizing conduits and channels by which material and imaginary resources circulate as differential circuits of power and authority, the book focuses on how memory activism and memory projects constitute emergent milieus of social exchange and ethical responsibility to self and circumstance, to both publics and political cultures.

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The Fragmenting Force of Memory

Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon

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Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon

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Milieus of ReMemory

Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice

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Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice

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The Fragmenting Force of Memory

The Fragmenting Force of Memory

Milieus of ReMemory

Milieus of ReMemory

The Fragmenting Force of Memory

The Fragmenting Force of Memory

Milieus of ReMemory

Milieus of ReMemory

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