[DOWNLOAD] "Exilic Memories of war: Lebanese Women Writers Looking Back." by Studies in the Humanities # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Exilic Memories of war: Lebanese Women Writers Looking Back.
- Author : Studies in the Humanities
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 355 KB
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The necessary survival of any society depends on its confronting any hurdles that incapacitate its sense of collectivity and/or diminish its communal consciousness. The issue of a collective remembrance specifically addressing the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) has been constantly addressed by a host of Lebanese and foreign writers, bringing the horrors of this experience to the fore of their literary explorations. Registering the Lebanese war experience, however, is varied, differing in its focus and scope depending on the specific historical moment that is being recorded, due to this war's multiple circumstances and settings. Moreover, the needs instigating writers to tackle the topic of the Lebanese war also vary, and often concomitantly exist with a quest to foment a form of Lebanese identity, whether a personal or collective one, regardless of the writer's nationality. In a bid to address the horrors of the Lebanese war and to reconstruct its painful reality, writing becomes an elemental tool of survival for three Lebanese women writers: Hoda Barakat, Hanan al-Shaykh, and Mai Ghoussoub. The focus of their work is not limited only to the war period, but is carried over into the post-war era, a time that can be more intellectually threatening due to the prevalence of a collective amnesia plaguing Lebanese society vis-a-vis all civil war referents. Moreover, by choosing a permanent home in exile, these writers occupy an unstable and complicated position toward Lebanon, the memory of which, although inextricably linked to the war, remains a lingering presence in their lives, shaping their outlook and surfacing again and again in their literary output.